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Biodiversity Under Threat EDITED BY R. E. HESTER AND R. M. HARRISON xviii + 272 pp., 24 × 16 × 2 cm, ISBN 978 0 85404 251 7 hardback, US$ 59.95, Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2008

ANNE MAGURRAN*
Affiliation:
Gatty Laboratory, School of BiologyUniversity of St AndrewsSt Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, UK e-mail: [email protected]

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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2008

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