Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity can be a Poor Strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity

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  2017

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2017-05-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/sysbio/syx054PMID 28595366
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