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The Los Santos Forest Reserve: A Buffer Zone Vital for the Costa Rican La Amistad Biosphere Reserve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Maarten Kappelle  and
Marta E. Juárez
Marta E. Juárez
Affiliation:
Respectively Tropical Ecologist & Social Planner, Hugo de Vries Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 166 - 169
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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