What is the importance of islands to environmental conservation?

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Environmental Conservation

• Publication date

  2017-11-24

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0376892917000479
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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