Biodiversity, conservation, and the 'Taxonomic impediment'

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 451-459

  Giangrande, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Descriptive ecology; Experimental ecology; Monitoring; Species richness; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; MARINE PARK; SPECIES INVENTORY; TAXONOMY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141763461     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.584     Document Type: Review

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