'New conservation' or surrender to development?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 509-515

  Miller, B ^a   Soule M E ^b   Terborgh, J ^c  

^a Denver Zoological Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84906558048     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12127     Document Type: Letter

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