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The Need to Conserve Silent Valley and Tropical Rain-forest Ecosystems in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

P.S. Ramakrishnan
P.S. Ramakrishnan
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Department of Botany School of Life SciencesNorth Eastern Hill UniversityShillong 793014, India.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer 1984 , pp. 170 - 171
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1984

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