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Species substitutions driven by anthropogenic positive feedbacks: Spanish crayfish species as a case study

2016-01-01

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Human preferences may generate purely anthropogenic positive feedback loops reinforcing either declines of overexploited populations or expansions of prized introduced species, potentially leading to species substitutions. I illustrate this process based on a content analysis of 20th century Spanish newspapers that document a rapid, country-wide substitution of an originally exploited crayfish (Austropotamobius it...

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Literature Corpus work: 77e7a604-2bef-56cb-bdfd-9da1ae02980d
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.11.017

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