Biodiversity studies and their foundation in taxonomic scholarship

BioScience

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 974-979

  Raczkowski, Joseph M ^a,b   Wenzel, John W ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology   (China)

^c Department of Entomology ^*

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Revision; Scholarship; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749087193     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B571110     Document Type: Review

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