International infrastructure for enabling the new taxonomy: The role of the global biodiversity information facility (GBIF)

The New Taxonomy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-94

  Speers, Larry ^a   Edwards, James L ^a  

^a Global Biodiversity Information Facility   (Denmark)

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EID: 61849161979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420008562     Document Type: Chapter

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