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Ageing Bamboo Culms to Assess Bamboo Population Dynamics in Panda Habitat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Alan H. Taylor  and
Qin Zisheng
Alan H. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Qin Zisheng
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Sichuan Teacher's College, Nanchong, Sichuan, P. R. of China.
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , Spring 1993 , pp. 76 - 79
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1993

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