Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2009-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2009.04.011PMID 19665254
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