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Shifting needs to safeguard diversity

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Systematic conservation planning in the European Alps suggests that priorities to safeguard multifaceted plant diversity will shift from low to high elevations and across latitudes, necessitating a coordinated and transboundary conservation strategy.

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Elsen, P.R. Shifting needs to safeguard diversity. Nat Ecol Evol 8, 366–367 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02315-2

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