The Biodiversity Question. How Many Species of Terrestrial Arthropods Are There?

Forest Canopies: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 259-269

  Erwin, Terry L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012457553-0/50019-8     Document Type: Chapter

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