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Title: Diversity and stability in ecosystem conservation.

Authors: Walker, B.

Citation: Walker, B. 1989. Diversity and stability in ecosystem conservation. In: Conservation for the Twenty-first Century. Editors: D. Western, and M. Pearl, 121-30. London: Oxford University Press.

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