One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2018-05-18

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.aap9565PMID 29773750
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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