The Global Decline of Reptiles, Déjà Vu Amphibians
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 50 (8) , 653-666
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0653:tgdord]2.0.co;2
Abstract
As a group [reptiles] are neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad,’ but iare interesting and unusual, although of minor importance. If they should all disappear, it would not mKeywords
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