Ecologically justified charisma: preservation of top predators delivers biodiversity conservation
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FABRIZIO SERGIO ,*† IAN NEWTON,‡ LUIGI MARCHESI† and PAOLO PEDRINI† *Department of Applied Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda. María Luisa s/n, Pabellón del Perú, 41013 Seville, Spain; †Raptor Conservation Research Unit, Trento Museum of Natural Sciences, Via Calepina 14, 38100 Trento, Italy; and ‡Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS, UK
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تاریخ انتشار 2006