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Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews

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  1. Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA, CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina

    Martin A. Nuñez

  2. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Tatsuya Amano

  3. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Tatsuya Amano

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Nuñez, M.A., Amano, T. Monolingual searches can limit and bias results in global literature reviews. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 264 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01369-w

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