Projecting global land use-driven evolutionary history loss
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Acknowledgements Many thanks to the following people: To my supervisors Anders Barfod, Flemming Skov and Thiemo Krink for inspiring me to do this work and for the supervision i received during the process. To Rasmus Kjaer Ursem and Rene Thomsen from the EVALife Group for comments on the report and for linux and latex support when things got rough. To my girlfriend Tina and our children Anton an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Diversity and Distributions
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1366-9516
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12677