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Designing Metropolitan Landscapes for Biodiversity

Deriving Guidelines from Metapopulation Ecology

Paul Opdam and Eveliene Steingröver
Landscape Journal, March 2008, 27 (1) 69-80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.27.1.69
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