Integrating Ecological and Ethnobotanical Knowledge to Promote Collaborative Conservation Planning in the Nepal Himalaya

The Manaslu Conservation Area in north-central Nepal is considered a biodiversity hotspot, but very little is known about the ecology of its forests and its residents' ethnobotanical practices. This study integrated data from ecological sample plots in 19 forest patches and an ethnobotanical in...

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Main Authors: Sushma Shrestha, Kimberly E. Medley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2017-02-01
Series:Mountain Research and Development
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Online Access:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00081.1