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SUBMITTER: Turvey ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863502 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20191104 1788
Long-term baselines on biodiversity change through time are crucial to inform conservation decision-making in biodiversity hotspots, but environmental archives remain unavailable for many regions. Extensive palaeontological, zooarchaeological and historical records and indigenous knowledge about past environmental conditions exist for China, a megadiverse country experiencing large-scale biodiversity loss, but their potential to understand past human-caused faunal turnover is not fully assessed. ...[more]