Taxonomic impediment or impediment to taxonomy? A commentary on systematics and the cybertaxonomic-automation paradigm

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 140-143

  de Carvalho, Marcelo R ^a   Bockmann, Flávio A ^a   Amorim, Dalton S ^a   Brandão, Carlos Roberto F ^a   de Vivo, Mário ^a   de Figueiredo, José L ^a   Britski, Heraldo A ^a   de Pinna, Mário C C ^a   Menezes, Naércio A ^a   Marques, Fernando P L ^a   Papavero, Nelson ^a   Cancello, Eliana M ^a   Crisci, Jorge V ^b   McEachran, John D ^c   Schelly, Robert C ^d   Lundberg, John G ^e   Gill, Anthony C ^f   Britz, Ralf ^g   Wheeler, Quentin D ^f   Stiassny, Melanie L J ^d   Parenti, Lynne R ^h   Page, Larry M ⁱ   Wheeler, Ward C ^d   Faivovich, Julián ^j   Vari, Richard P ^h   Grande, Lance ^k   Humphries, Chris J ^g   DeSalle, Rob ^d   Ebach, Malte C ^l   Nelson, Gareth J ^m   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^j SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^k FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^l FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 60349088572     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-007-9011-6     Document Type: Article

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