The Principle of Nested Subsets and Its Implications for Biological Conservation

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  1987

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  1987-12-01

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1523-1739.1987.TB00052.X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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