Significance of specimen databases from taxonomic revisions for estimating and mapping the global species diversity of invertebrates and repatriating reliable specimen data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 478-488

  Meier, Rudolf ^a,b   Dikow, Torsten ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INVERTEBRATE; MAPPING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

ASILIDAE; DIPTERA; EUSCELIDIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842815199     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00233.x     Document Type: Article

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