Opinion: Nationally reported metrics can't adequately guide transformative change in biodiversity policy.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Research Centre for Ecological Change, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland;

Published: March 2022

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