Race to save species hotspots
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Race to save species hotspots
A new study that has identified the remaining habitat of threatened species finds nearly three times as many are on the brink of extinction than have died out in the past 500 years. The new global analysis of the most threatened habitats was carried out by an international alliance of conservation scientists who spent three years locating the last remaining sites where species labelled endanger...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.01.010