The need for evidence-based conservation.

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2004-06-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.TREE.2004.03.018PMID 16701275
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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