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The threat of small households

Nature volume 421, pages 489–490 (2003)Cite this article

Many studies have suggested that the increasing global human population is having a negative effect on biodiversity. According to new work, another threat comes from the rising number of households.

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Figure 1: Decline and fall in household sizes.

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