The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-74

  Suarez, Andrew V ^a   Tsutsui, Neil D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Global climate change; Museum collections; National security; Public health and safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346670237     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0066:TVOMCF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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