Conservation of the Baiji: no simple solution.
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چکیده
DING WANG,∗†† XIANFENG ZHANG,∗ KEXIONG WANG,∗ ZHUO WEI,∗ BERND WÜRSIG,† GILLIAN T. BRAULIK,‡ AND SUSIE ELLIS§ ∗Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China †Texas A&M University, 4700 Avenue U, Building 303, Galveston, TX 77551, U.S.A. ‡Downstream Research Group, 3950 S. Fletcher Avenue, Amelia Island, FL 32034, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
دوره 20 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006