The fate of the tropical forest: Carbon or cattle?
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Oliver T. Coomes⁎, Franque Grimard, Catherin Potvin, Philip Sima Department of Geography, Burnside Hall Rm 705, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2K6 Department of Economics, Leacock Building, Rm. 433, McGill University, Sherbrooke St West, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2T7 Department of Biology, Stewart Biology Building, McGill University, 1205 Ave Docteur Penfield, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 1B1. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama City, Panama Philip Sima, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station B7500, Austin, Texas 78712-0222, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2008