Is Ethnobotany an Ecological Science? Steps towards a complex Ethnobotany
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ethnobiology and Conservation
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2238-4782
DOI: 10.15451/ec2012-8-1.4-1-16