A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2012-05-02

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature11118PMID 22678289
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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