Quantifying biodiversity: Experience with parataxonomists and digital photography in Papua New Guinea and Guyana

BioScience

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 899-908

  Basset, Y ^a   Novotny, V ^a   Miller, S E ^a   Pyle, R ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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EID: 0033788356     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2000)050[0899:QBEWPA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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