High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert

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• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Biological Conservation

• Publication date

  2021-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2021.109262
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