Educating students on the importance of spatial and temporal bias in museum collections: An example using sonora semiannulata from Texas

Herpetological Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 292-298

  Laduc, Travis J ^a,b   Bell, Christopher J ^b,c  

^a Texas Natural Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONORA SEMIANNULATA;

EID: 77958115077     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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