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Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left

2022-08-01

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Global biodiversity decline is best understood as too many people consuming and producing too much and displacing other species. Wild landscapes and seascapes are replaced with people, our domestics and commensals, our economic support systems, and our trash. Conservation biologists have documented many of the ways that human activity drives global biodiversity loss, but they generally neglect the role of overpopu...

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Literature Corpus work: 7f33ff7a-84c9-5627-84a5-6f512370b1c0
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109646

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