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Statement of authorship : FR and CB-L wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors contributed substantially to revisions. FR prepared the figure following suggestions from all authors.

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Title : Shared principles for area-based biodiversity conservation

Running title : Principles for area-based conservation

Keywords : Global Biodiversity Framework, Area-based conservation, Protected area, Habitat fragmentation, Habitat loss, Biodiversity conservation, Connectivity, Conservation principles, COP 15.

Type of article : Viewpoint

Number of words in the abstract : 139

Number of words in the main text (excluding abstract, acknowledgements, references, table and figure legends): 2040

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Number of references : 30

Number of figures, tables, and text boxes : 1, 0, 0

Name and complete mailing address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address) of the person to whom correspondence should be sent : Federico Riva - Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Email: f.riva@vu.nl Phone + 31 20 59 88 678 (IVM secretariat)

Authors: Federico Riva¹*†, Nick Haddad²†, Lenore Fahrig³†, Cristina Banks-Leite⁴†