Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

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  2011

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2011-09-02

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.1208742PMID 21885781
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