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Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!An international research team has discovered that forest fragmentation poses an even greater threat to Amazonian biodiversity than previously thought. Their findings, to be published next week (27 November - 1 December) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, summarizes key findings from the world's largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation.
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