Environment: Biodiversity update - Progress in taxonomy

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5592, 2002, Pages 365-

  Blackmore, Stephen ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; EXPERT SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

EID: 0037064181     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075026     Document Type: Short Survey

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