Museum collections, species distributions, and rarefaction

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 423-424

  Solow, Andrew R ^a   Roberts, David L ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Museum and herbaria collections; Orchids; Rarefaction; Sampling; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERBARIUM; MUSEUM; NUMERICAL METHOD; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIMEN BANK;

ORCHIDACEAE; PHRAGMIPEDIUM;

EID: 33745713245     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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