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Reptile distribution may identify terrestrial islands for conservation: the Levant's 'Arava Valley as a model

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  • 1. The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
  • 2. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel;
  • 3. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; & Museum für Tierkunde, Senckenberg Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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Seifan, Merav, Zohar, Yaara, Werner, Yehudah L. (2016): Reptile distribution may identify terrestrial islands for conservation: the Levant's 'Arava Valley as a model. Journal of Natural History 50: 2783-2801, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1205154, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1205154

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