Reconciling biodiversity and carbon conservation
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Reconciling conflicting perspectives for biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene
© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org H environmental impacts are now so extensive and pervasive that many consider that the planet has entered a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Increasingly, efforts to conserve biodiversity are confronted with new challenges resulting from profound changes to many biotic and abiotic processes (Steffen et al. 2004; MA 2005), wh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1461-023X
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12054