Conservation: Stop misuse of biodiversity offsets

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2015-07-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/523401aPMID 26201581
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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