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Australia's biodiversity conservation crisis - does anyone care?
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Richard T. Kingsford
Richard T. Kingsford
Australian Wetlands, Rivers and Landscapes Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
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Richard T. Kingsford, 2013. "Australia's biodiversity conservation crisis - does anyone care?", Grumpy Scientists: The Ecological Conscience of a Nation, Daniel Lunney, Pat Hutchings, Harry Recher
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