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Samson, R. et al. (2017). Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services. In: Pearlmutter, D., et al. The Urban Forest. Future City, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_12

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