Additional File 4: Bibliography of Included Studies
a)Bibliography of Studies Including a Measure of Contribution to Poverty Alleviation
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Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit. Shyamsundar, Priya. Baccini, Alessandro.. 2006. Forest, biomeass use and poverty in Malawi, A draft paper for the Malawi poverty assessment .World bank policy research working paper 4068.
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Duc, Nguyen Minh.. 2009. Contribution of fish production to farmers' subjective well-being in Vietnam - A logistic model. Journal of the World aquaculture society . 40, 3, 417 - 424.
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Fu, X., Chen, J., Guo, H., Chen, A. and Cui, J. . 2009. Rain forest dwellers'livelihoods: income generation, household wealth and NTFP sales, a case study from Xishuangbanna, SW China. INternational Journal of Sustainable development and World Ecology. 16 (5): 332-338.
Fu, Y., Chen, J., Guo, H., Chen, A., Cui, J., Hu, H.. 2009. The role of non-timber forest products during agroecosystem shift in Xishuangbanna, southwestern China. Forest Policy and Economics . 11, 18–25.
Glaser, M.. 2003. Interrelations between mangrove ecosystem, local economy and social sustainability in Caeté Estuary, North Brazil. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 11, 265-272.
Gordon, Ian. Ayiemba, Washington.. 2003. Harnessing butterfly biodiversity for improving livelihoods and forest conservation: The Kipepeo project . Journal of environment and development . 12, 1, 2003.
Graham, Nicholas A J. Ainsworth, Tracy D. Baird, Andrew H. Ban, Natalie C. Bay, Line K. Cinner, Joshua E. De Freitas, Debora M. Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo Diaz. Dornelas, Maria. Dunn, Simon R. Fidelman, Pedro I J. Forest, Sylvain. Good, Tatjana C. Kool, Johnathan. Mallela, Jennie. Penin, Lucie. Pratchett, Morgan S. Williamson, David H. . 2011. From microbes to people: Tractable benefits of no-take areas for coral reefs. . Oceanography and marine biology: An annual review. 49, 105-136.
Guebert-Bartholo, F.M., Barletta, M., Costa, M.F., Lucena, L.R. and Pereira da Silva, C. . 2011. Fishery and use of space in a tropical semi arid estuarine region of northeast Brazil: subsistence and over exploitation. Journal of Coastal Research. 64: 398-402.
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