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To conserve nature in today’s world, the collective impact of protecting similar natural units across diverse scales of space and time needs to be considered. In other words, to ensure the conservation of a single type of an ecosystem or habitat or species within a single region or country, all the natural units of this type need to be considered collectively. The influence of a change in scale in either time or space always needs to be weighed to ensure that the appropriate natural units can be maintained for the foreseeable future.
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Miller, R.I. (1994). Possibilities for the future. In: Miller, R.I. (eds) Mapping the Diversity of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0719-8_12
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