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Investing in evolutionary history: implementing a phylogenetic approach for mammal conservation.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 27 Sept 2011
Collen Ben, Turvey Samuel T, Waterman Carly, Meredith Helen M R, Kuhn Tyler S, Baillie Jonathan E M, Isaac Nick J B
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Under the impact of human activity, global extinction rates have risen a thousand times higher than shown in the fossil record. The resources available for conservation are insufficient to prevent the loss of much of the world's threatened biodiversity during this crisis. Conservation planners have been forced to prioritize their protective activities, in the context of great uncertainty. This has become known as...
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