Paying Brazil's Farmers to Conserve is Worth the Price, Study Suggests (9 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Paying Brazil's Farmers to Conserve is Worth the Price, Study Suggests (9 of 9)

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The black-spined Atlantic tree-rat (Phyllomys nigrispinus) is endemic to the Atlantic Forest and its diet consists mostly of leaves. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 Aug. 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Banks-Leite at Imperial College London in Ascot, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Using ecological thresholds to cost set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot."

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Thomas Püttker

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