Unnatural Selection: An Analysis of the Ecological Representativeness of Natural World Heritage SitesFootnote*

*Special thanks to Connie Weil, Bill Cunningham, Heike Alberts, and five anonymous reviewers for their assistance in reviewing drafts of this paper. This work was done while the first author was at the University of Minnesota.

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