Global benefits and local costs – The dilemma of tropical forest conservation: A review of the situation in Madagascar

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  • FRANK WÄTZOLD
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R E G I N A N E U D E R T 1, 2 ∗, JÖRG U . G AN Z H O RN 3 AND FRANK WÄTZOLD 1 1Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Postbox 101344, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany, 2Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Soldmannstraße 15, 17489 Greifswald, Germany and 3Department of Animal Ecology and Conservation, University of Hamburg, Biozentrum Grindel, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Date submitted: 15 October 2015; Date accepted: 25 November 2016; First published online 29 December 2016

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تاریخ انتشار 2017