Landscape biodiversity and biological health risk assessment: The map of italian nature

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 639-659

  Zurlini, Giovanni ^a   Rossi, Orazio ^b   Amadio, Vittorio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea   (Italy)

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