How Good Science and Stories Can Go Hand‐In‐Hand

@article{Leslie2013HowGS,
  title={How Good Science and Stories Can Go Hand‐In‐Hand},
  author={Heather M. Leslie and Erica Goldman and Karen L. McLeod and Leila Sievanen and Hari Balasubramanian and Richard Cudney-Bueno and Amanda Feuerstein and Nancy Knowlton and Kai Lee and Richard B. Pollnac and Jameal F. Samhouri},
  journal={Conservation Biology},
  year={2013},
  volume={27}
}
HEATHER M. LESLIE,∗† ERICA GOLDMAN,‡ KAREN L. MCLEOD,§ LEILA SIEVANEN,† HARI BALASUBRAMANIAN,∗∗††† RICHARD CUDNEY-BUENO,†† AMANDA FEUERSTEIN,‡‡ NANCY KNOWLTON,‡‡ KAI LEE,†† RICHARD POLLNAC,§§ AND JAMEAL F. SAMHOURI∗∗∗ ∗Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. †Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Box 1943, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. ‡COMPASS, 9523 Clement Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910, U.S.A. §COMPASS, Department of Zoology… 

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