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CONSERVATION PLANNING

Ecoinformatics for conservation biology

Harnessing big data and machine learning provides an assessment of the extinction risks of palm species worldwide, and illustrates an integrative conservation planning approach that incorporates evolutionary and ecological distinctiveness as well as human use.

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Fig. 1: Harvesting sap.

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Neves, D.M. Ecoinformatics for conservation biology. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1595–1596 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01870-4

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