"Awkward wording. Rephrase": Linguistic injustice in ecological journals

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 552-553

  Clavero, Miguel ^a,b  

^a Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LETTER; PUBLISHING;

ECOLOGY; LANGUAGE; PUBLISHING;

EID: 77956647572     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.07.001     Document Type: Letter

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