The human footprint and the last of the wild

BioScience

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 891-904

  Sanderson, Eric W ^a   Jaiteh, Malanding ^a   Levy, Marc A ^a   Redford, Kent H ^a   Wannebo, Antoinette V ^a   Woolmer, Gillian ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

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EID: 0036794856     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2002)052[0891:THFATL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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