Eating frogs to extinction.
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IAN G. WARKENTIN,∗ DAVID BICKFORD,† NAVJOT S. SODHI,†‡ AND COREY J. A. BRADSHAW§∗∗ ∗Environmental Science—Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador A2H 6P9, Canada, email [email protected] †Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore ‡Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. §Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia ∗∗South Australian Research and Development Institute, P.O. Box 120, Henley Beach, South Australia 5022, Australia
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
دوره 23 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009