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Biodiversity and Conservation
Biodiversity Biogeography Biosphere Interactions Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Coupled Natural and Human Systems Ecosystem Science Environmental Contamination and Remediation Environmental Impacts Food, Water and Energy Nexus Natural Resource Management Science Policy Spatial and Geographic Information Science
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12 December 2022
DNA barcoding unveils a high diversity of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park (West Java; Indonesia)
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8 May 2018
Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef—how adequately is it protected?
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22 April 2019
Extinction and the U.S. Endangered Species Act
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28 January 2019
Designing online species identification tools for biological recording: the impact on data quality and citizen science learning
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7 May 2020
Public perspectives and media reporting of wolf reintroduction in Colorado
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4 May 2018
DNA metabarcoding of littoral hard-bottom communities: high diversity and database gaps revealed by two molecular markers
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15 February 2021
A kingdom in decline: Holocene range contraction of the lion (Panthera leo) modelled with global environmental stratification
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5 July 2018
Who bears the cost of forest conservation?
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17 October 2019
A novel form of wasp mimicry in a new species of praying mantis from the Amazon rainforest, Vespamantoida wherleyi gen. nov. sp. nov. (Mantodea, Mantoididae)
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30 April 2018
The effect of using games in teaching conservation

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Pulsed Resources Impacts on Biological Processes: From Genes to Ecosystems
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Discussion

National Geographic: "How do we decide which species are endangered or threatened?"
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/endangered-threatened-species-how-we-decide/

Mongabay: "Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar"
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/07/forest-communities-pay-the-price-for-conservation-in-madagascar/