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Positive sentiment and knowledge increase tolerance towards conservation actions

2017-02-01

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People generally possess certain basic ideas and values towards biodiversity, influencing their personal evaluation of a conservation situation or action and their attitude towards nature and its conservation. Here, we apply knowledge on human attitudes to an interesting socio-ecological system, the case of mitigating the devastating infectious amphibian disease chytridiomycosis in the Pyrenean Mountains, a touris...

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Literature Corpus work: 585d9e04-f863-55fb-a9ba-a93346f883c6
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1253-0

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