How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the relevance of long-term ecological studies

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-02-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2006.1977PMCID PMC2311423
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