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Which Nature Do We Want to Protect and How?

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On the same area or at the same location, completely different manifestations of “nature” are possible. The nature we encounter there depends on the way we influence the site. The fact that no strict assignment between concrete measures and concrete states of nature becomes apparent makes nature conservation management even more complicated.

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Hupke, KD. (2023). Which Nature Do We Want to Protect and How?. In: Nature Conservation. Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66159-8_7

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