The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2016-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.003PMID 27117523
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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