Biodiversity, Urban Areas, and Agriculture: Locating Priority Ecoregions for Conservation
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Biodiversity, Urban Areas, and Agriculture: Locating Priority Ecoregions for Conservation
Urbanization and agriculture are two of the most important threats to biodiversity worldwide. The intensities of these land-use phenomena, however, as well as levels of biodiversity itself, differ widely among regions. Thus, there is a need to develop a quick but rigorous method of identifying where high levels of human threats and biodiversity coincide. These areas are clear priorities for bio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Conservation Ecology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1195-5449
DOI: 10.5751/es-00593-080201