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</style><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Nature, correspondence<b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Published: 30 November 2016<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Verdana">Conservation: thrive on slings and arrows<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:
6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/540038d#auth-David-Lindenmayer-Aff1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153);">David Lindenmayer</span></a> <o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 0in 0in"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>7025 </b><span style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98);">Accesses</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
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