Natural history museums in a postbiodiversity era

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 455-459

  Winker, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b Amer Ornithologist' Union Comm B   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological collections; Biomonitoring; Environmental sciences; Global change; Museum specimens

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442573775     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0455:NHMIAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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