Decline in nature-based recreation is not evident
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Ominous trends in nature recreation.
C onservation science is replete with analyses of threats to biodiversity. The IUCN even has a formal taxonomy of threats to imperiled species that can be used to tally up global inventories of threats across taxa or geographies (1). Habitat loss and habitat degradation are touted as the greatest threats, with global warming now also recognized as a major problem along with species introduction...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802380105