Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: a synthetic overview

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  2017

• Venue

  Biological Conservation

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2016.12.020
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