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Explosive Deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Philip M. Fearnside  and
Enéas Salati
Philip M. Fearnside
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology, National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA), Caixa Postal 478, 69.000 Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil
Enéas Salati
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA), Caixa Postal 96, 13.400 Piracicaba—São Paulo, Brazil.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , Winter 1985 , pp. 355 - 356
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1985

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