Ecological Homogenization of Urban USA

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Publication date

  2014-02-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1890/120374
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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