A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2014-04-07

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2013.3330PMID 24523278PMCID PMC4027400
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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