Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

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• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2000-02-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/35002501PMID 10706275
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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