Conservation Biology: The Many Ways to Protect Biodiversity
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چکیده
Protecting hotspots of marine species richness may not be an effective strategy to conserve biodiversity because these sites do not coincide with hotspots of functional and phylogenetic diversity.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011