Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity
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Geography Department, HumboldtUniversity Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems, HumboldtUniversity Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany, Free Floater Research Group Biodiversity, Macroecology & Conservation Biogeography, Georg August-University of G€ottingen, 37077 G€ottingen, Germany, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Palack y University Olomouc, 78346 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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