'Integrative taxonomy' then and now: A response to Dayrat (2005)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 211-216

  Valdecasas, Antonio G ^a   Williams, David ^b   Wheeler, Quentin D ^b,c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphospecies; Nature of evidence, species delimitation; Taxonomic theory; Typology

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; TAXONOMY; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 37249020136     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00919.x     Document Type: Review

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