Editorial: Early Human Colonization of Remote Indian Ocean Islands and Its Ecological Impacts
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EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 18 May 2022Sec. Paleoecology https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.915306
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2296-701X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.915306