The potential for biodiversity offsetting to fund invasive species eradications on islands.
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N.D. Holmes,∗ ¶ G.R. Howald,∗ A.S. Wegmann,∗ C.J. Donlan,†‡ M. Finkelstein,§ and B. Keitt∗ ∗Island Conservation, 2161 Delaware Ave Suite A, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, U.S.A. †Advanced Conservation Strategies, Via Agusta 12, Cordoba 14011, Spain ‡Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 15853, U.S.A. §University of California at Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
دوره 30 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016