A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues

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  2012

• Venue

  Conservation Letters

• Publication date

  2012-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00257.x
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