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Rubber versus forest on contested Asian land

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Trade-offs in clearing forests for rubber plantations depend on calculations of opportunity costs. Such costs are not just a matter of economic calculations but also the politics of the forests and those who live in them

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA

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Dove, M.R. Rubber versus forest on contested Asian land. Nature Plants 4, 321–322 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0169-y

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