Maurizio G Paoletti, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Published online: March 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003259
The aim of conserving biodiversity is to provide strategies and appropriate management to improve and/or maintain diversity of biota and environments in rural and urbanized landscape in a substantial way.
Keywords: biodiversity; invertebrates; environments; landscapes; rural environments; promote biodiversity
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