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Subject Areas on Research
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7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota.
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A High-Resolution Time Series Reveals Distinct Seasonal Patterns of Planktonic Fungi at a Temperate Coastal Ocean Site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA).
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A call for deep-ocean stewardship.
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A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges.
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A comparison of sequencing platforms and bioinformatics pipelines for compositional analysis of the gut microbiome.
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A continental view of pine-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal spore banks: a quiescent functional guild with a strong biogeographic pattern.
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A molecular-based approach for examining responses of eukaryotes in microcosms to contaminant-spiked estuarine sediments.
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A multi-taxonomic framework for assessing relative petrochemical vulnerability of marine biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico.
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A multidimensional approach for detecting species patterns in Malagasy vertebrates.
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A multifactor analysis of fungal and bacterial community structure in the root microbiome of mature Populus deltoides trees.
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A necessarily complex model to explain the biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar.
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A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas.
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A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining.
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A test of the niche dimension hypothesis in an arid annual grassland.
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A(r)Ray of hope in analysis of the function and diversity of microbial communities.
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Abundance and genetic diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria of coastal regions of the pacific ocean.
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Achieving the convention on biological diversity's goals for plant conservation.
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Afforestation alters the composition of functional genes in soil and biogeochemical processes in South American grasslands.
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Africa: sequence 100,000 species to safeguard biodiversity.
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Africa: still the "dark continent".
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Amazon tree dominance across forest strata.
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An ecosystem-based deep-ocean strategy.
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An estimate of the number of tropical tree species.
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Antibacterial soap use impacts skin microbial communities in rural Madagascar.
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Approximate Bayesian Computation Reveals the Crucial Role of Oceanic Islands for the Assembly of Continental Biodiversity.
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Are environmental pollution and biodiversity levels associated to the spread and mortality of COVID-19? A four-month global analysis.
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Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model.
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Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas.
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Bacteriophages that infect Gram-negative bacteria as source of signal-arrest-release motif lysins.
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Bamboo Specialists from Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbes.
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Behavioural ecology and infectious disease: implications for conservation of biodiversity.
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Beyond neutral science.
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Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.
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Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen.
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Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives.
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Biodiversity and the Lotka-Volterra theory of species interactions: open systems and the distribution of logarithmic densities.
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Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species.
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Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs.
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Biodiversity targets will not be met without debt and tax justice.
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Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species?
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Biodiversity: not just lots of fish in the sea.
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Biomass and compositional responses of ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization.
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Biopiracy: conservationists have to rebuild lost trust.
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Biotic and anthropogenic forces rival climatic/abiotic factors in determining global plant population growth and fitness.
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Bird extirpations and community dynamics in an Andean cloud forest over 100 years of land-use change.
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Both life-history plasticity and local adaptation will shape range-wide responses to climate warming in the tundra plant Silene acaulis.
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Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging?
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Bryophyte diversity and evolution: windows into the early evolution of land plants.
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Bushmeat supply and consumption in a tropical logging concession in northern Congo.
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CO2-enrichment and nutrient availability alter ectomycorrhizal fungal communities.
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Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution?
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Carolina critters: a collection of camera-trap data from wildlife surveys across North Carolina.
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Centrality in primate-parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans.
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China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda.
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Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon
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Climate disruption and biodiversity.
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Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities
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Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients.
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Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to 10 years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Common methods for fecal sample storage in field studies yield consistent signatures of individual identity in microbiome sequencing data.
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Community analysis reveals close affinities between endophytic and endolichenic fungi in mosses and lichens
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Community dynamics of soil-borne fungal communities along elevation gradients in neotropical and palaeotropical forests.
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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.
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Comparative tests of parasite species richness in primates.
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Comparison of fecal biota from specific pathogen free and feral mice.
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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change.
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Computationally efficient joint species distribution modeling of big spatial data.
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Conflation of values and science: response to Noss et al.
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Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications.
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Conservation. CITES designation for endangered rosewood in Madagascar.
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Conservation: forest fragments, facts, and fallacies.
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Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining.
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Convergent evolution of chromosomal sex-determining regions in the animal and fungal kingdoms.
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Darwinian genomics and diversity in the tree of life.
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Decline in plankton diversity and carbon flux with reduced sea ice extent along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
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Deep divergence and rapid evolutionary rates in gut-associated Acetobacteraceae of ants.
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Delimiting species without nuclear monophyly in Madagascar's mouse lemurs.
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Disappearance of an ecosystem engineer, the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), leads to density compensation and ecological release.
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Distinct microbial communities within the endosphere and rhizosphere of Populus deltoides roots across contrasting soil types.
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Distribution and diversity of planktonic fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool.
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Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise.
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Diversification and the evolution of dispersal ability in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae).
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Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome.
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Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots?
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Diversity and phylogenetic affinities of foliar fungal endophytes in loblolly pine inferred by culturing and environmental PCR.
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Diversity has stronger top-down than bottom-up effects on decomposition.
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Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primates.
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Does habitat disturbance increase infectious disease risk for primates?
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Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history.
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Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life.
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Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach.
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Ecology. Cleaner lakes are dirtier lakes.
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Ecology. Domains of diversity.
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Ecosystem-based management for military training, biodiversity, carbon storage and climate resiliency on a complex coastal land/water-scape.
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Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and community structure on three co-occurring leguminous canopy tree species in a Neotropical rainforest
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Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity in orchards of cultivated pecan (Carya illinoinensis; Juglandaceae).
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Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems.
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Effects of selected pharmaceutically active compounds on treatment performance in sequencing batch reactors mimicking wastewater treatment plants operations.
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Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia.
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Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures.
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Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity.
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Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome.
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Endosymbiosis.
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Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests.
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Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification.
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Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities.
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Environmental factors regulate Paneth cell phenotype and host susceptibility to intestinal inflammation in Irgm1-deficient mice.
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Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world.
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Evidence for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy
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Evidence from individual inference for high-dimensional coexistence: long-term experiments on recruitment response.
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Evolution of the hygiene hypothesis into biota alteration theory: what are the paradigms and where are the clinical applications?
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Evolutionary origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts.
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Expiry dates.
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Facilitation cascade drives positive relationship between native biodiversity and invasion success.
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Fast demographic traits promote high diversification rates of Amazonian trees.
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Feeding strategy shapes gut metagenomic enrichment and functional specialization in captive lemurs.
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Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms.
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Financing conservation by valuing carbon services produced by wild animals.
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Flowering in grassland predicted by CO2 and resource effects on species aboveground biomass.
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Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes.
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Fungal Endophytes of Populus trichocarpa Alter Host Phenotype, Gene Expression, and Rhizobiome Composition.
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Fungal pathogens.
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Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems.
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Gaps contribute tree diversity to a tropical floodplain forest.
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Gastrointestinal microbiota alteration induced by Mucor circinelloides in a murine model.
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Generators of phenotypic diversity in the evolution of pathogenic microorganisms.
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Genetic variation in horizontally transmitted fungal endophytes of pine needles reveals population structure in cryptic species.
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Genotypic diversity of anaerobic isolates from bloodstream infections.
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Global desertification: building a science for dryland development.
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Global patterns in peatmoss biodiversity.
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Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots.
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Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation.
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Global protected area impacts.
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Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients.
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Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness.
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Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
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Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation.
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Heterogeneity within and among co-occurring foundation species increases biodiversity.
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Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China.
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High phylogenetic diversity and abundance pattern of Labyrinthulomycete protists in the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea.
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High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net.
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Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees.
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Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale.
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Host longevity and parasite species richness in mammals.
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How China expanded its protected areas to conserve biodiversity.
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How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems.
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How many species of flowering plants are there?
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How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software.
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How to protect half of Earth to ensure it protects sufficient biodiversity.
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Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions.
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Hyperdominance in the Amazonian tree flora.
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Implications of nonrandom seed abscission and global stilling for migration of wind-dispersed plant species.
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Increased biodiversity in the environment improves the humoral response of rats.
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Increased diversification rates follow shifts to bisexuality in liverworts.
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Individual-scale inference to anticipate climate-change vulnerability of biodiversity.
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Individual-scale variation, species-scale differences: inference needed to understand diversity.
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Individuals and the variation needed for high species diversity in forest trees.
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Infectious diseases and extinction risk in wild mammals.
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Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy.
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Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.
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Integrating impact evaluation in the design and implementation of monitoring marine protected areas.
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Integrative approaches to the study of primate infectious disease: implications for biodiversity conservation and global health.
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Interactions between micro- and macroparasites predict microparasite species richness across primates.
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Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships.
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Investigating niche partitioning of ectomycorrhizal fungi in specialized rooting zones of the monodominant leguminous tree Dicymbe corymbosa.
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It is Time to Stop Missing the Forest for the Trees: The Debate on Corticosteroid Use in Pediatric Heart Surgery.
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Land-use and land-cover change shape the sustainability and impacts of protected areas.
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Lessons learned from coordinating research on the North Atlantic (CORONA).
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Linking populations to landscapes: richness scenarios resulting from changes in the dynamics of an ecosystem engineer.
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Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality.
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Long-Term Effects of Copper Nanopesticides on Soil and Sediment Community Diversity in Two Outdoor Mesocosm Experiments.
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Making marine life count: a new baseline for policy.
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Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea.
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Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene.
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Microbiome of the upper troposphere: species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications.
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Microbiota as Predictor of Mortality in Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation.
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Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial populations.
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Molecular characterization of the spatial diversity and novel lineages of mycoplankton in Hawaiian coastal waters.
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Molecular clocks and the early evolution of metazoan nervous systems.
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Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments.
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Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest
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Mycoplasma-related endobacteria within Mortierellomycotina fungi: diversity, distribution and functional insights into their lifestyle.
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Natural experiment demonstrates that bird loss leads to cessation of dispersal of native seeds from intact to degraded forests.
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Navigating the complexity of ecological stability.
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NeXML: rich, extensible, and verifiable representation of comparative data and metadata.
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New North American truffles (Tuber spp.) and their ectomycorrhizal associations.
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New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene.
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Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific.
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Nitrogen fertilization has a stronger effect on soil nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities than elevated atmospheric CO2.
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Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants.
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On population growth near protected areas.
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On the Interpretations of Joint Modeling in Community Ecology.
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Overlooked mountain rock pools in deserts are critical local hotspots of biodiversity.
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Parasite-mediated evolution of the functional part of the MHC in primates.
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Parasites and the evolutionary diversification of primate clades.
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Patchy Distributions and Distinct Niche Partitioning of Mycoplankton Populations across a Nearshore to Open Ocean Gradient.
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Pathogen regulation of plant diversity via effective specialization.
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Pattern and process in Amazon tree turnover, 1976-2001.
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Phenex: ontological annotation of phenotypic diversity.
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Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.
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Phylogenetic evidence of a rapid radiation of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta).
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Phylogeny and evolution of Malagasy plated lizards.
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Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability.
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Planetary Boundaries for Biodiversity: Implausible Science, Pernicious Policies.
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Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation.
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Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands.
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Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands.
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Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve.
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Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?
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Primate extinction risk and historical patterns of speciation and extinction in relation to body mass.
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Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness
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Protect the deep sea.
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Quantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of a synthetic predator-prey ecosystem.
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Racial Biology and Medical Misconceptions.
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Range change evolution of peat mosses (Sphagnum) within and between climate zones.
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Range size heritability and diversification patterns in the liverwort genus Radula.
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Ranging patterns and parasitism in primates.
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Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion.
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Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments.
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Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier.
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Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types.
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Reply to Brown et al.: Species and places are the priorities for conservation, not economic efficiency.
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Reply to Smith and Griffin: Methods, air flows, and conclusions are robust in the DeLeon-Rodriguez et al. study.
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Residential yard management and landscape cover affect urban bird community diversity across the continental USA.
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Resolving the biodiversity paradox.
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Responses of tropical native and invader C4 grasses to water stress, clipping and increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.
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Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland.
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Results of efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas.
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Salt marshes.
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Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree-epiphyte system.
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Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity.
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Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia.
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Signatures of demography and recombination at coding genes in naturally-distributed populations of Arabidopsis lyrata subsp. petraea.
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Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation.
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Spatiotemporal modulation of biodiversity in a synthetic chemical-mediated ecosystem.
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Species delimitation in lemurs: multiple genetic loci reveal low levels of species diversity in the genus Cheirogaleus.
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Specific eukaryotic plankton are good predictors of net community production in the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
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Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project.
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Surficial gains and subsoil losses of soil carbon and nitrogen during secondary forest development.
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Survey of corticioid fungi in North American pinaceous forests reveals hyperdiversity, underpopulated sequence databases, and species that are potentially ectomycorrhizal.
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Sustaining the variety of life.
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Sympatric parallel diversification of major oak clades in the Americas and the origins of Mexican species diversity.
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Synergies and trade-offs among integrated conservation approaches in Mexico.
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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access.
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Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests.
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Techniques for quantifying phytoplankton biodiversity.
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Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification.
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Temporal coexistence mechanisms contribute to the latitudinal gradient in forest diversity.
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Testing the effects of four urbanization filters on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.
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The Chado Natural Diversity module: a new generic database schema for large-scale phenotyping and genotyping data.
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The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock.
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The Fate of the World's Plants.
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The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss.
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The Origin and Diversification of Birds.
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The Rise of Fungi: A Report on the CIFAR Program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities Inaugural Meeting.
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The Spatial Factor, Rather than Elevated CO(2), Controls the Soil Bacterial Community in a Temperate Forest Ecosystem
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The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing
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The adaptive radiation of lichen-forming Teloschistaceae is associated with sunscreening pigments and a bark-to-rock substrate shift.
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The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection.
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The coherence problem with the Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity.
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The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities.
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The diversity of population responses to environmental change.
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The emergent interactions that govern biodiversity change.
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The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet.
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The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics.
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The impact of large terrestrial carnivores on Pleistocene ecosystems
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The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States.
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The macroecology of infectious diseases: a new perspective on global-scale drivers of pathogen distributions and impacts.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same? When is trait variability important for stability of ecosystem function in a changing environment.
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The ocean sampling day consortium.
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The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists.
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The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq.
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The role of diversification in community assembly of the oaks (Quercus L.) across the continental U.S.
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Thomas Lovejoy (1941-2021).
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Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining.
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Toward a trophic theory of species diversity.
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Toward an ecological classification of soil bacteria.
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Transboundary Frontiers: An Emerging Priority for Biodiversity Conservation.
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Transforming Protected Area Management in China.
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Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary.
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Trophic downgrading of planet Earth.
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Tropical forests can maintain hyperdiversity because of enemies.
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US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities.
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Understanding rice adaptation to varying agro-ecosystems: trait interactions and quantitative trait loci.
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What is biodiversity conservation? : This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Biodiversity Conservation.
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What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity.
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When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation.
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Why a Planetary Boundary, If It Is Not Planetary, and the Boundary Is Undefined? A Reply to Rockström et al.
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Why sequence all eukaryotes?
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Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis.
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Woody vegetation dynamics in the tropical and subtropical Andes from 2001 to 2014: Satellite image interpretation and expert validation.
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Keywords of People
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Pimm, Stuart L.,
Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences,
Duke Science & Society
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Poulsen, John,
Associate Professor of Tropical Ecology,
Environmental Sciences and Policy
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Swenson, Jennifer J.,
Associate Professor of the Practice of Geospatial Analysis,
Environmental Sciences and Policy
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Wernegreen, Jennifer Jo,
Lee Hill Snowdon Associate Professor,
Environmental Sciences and Policy
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Williams, Blythe A.,
Associate Professor of the Practice Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology,
Evolutionary Anthropology
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Yoder, Anne Daphne,
Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology,
Duke Science & Society