Wikipedia as an encyclopaedia of life

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 343-349

  Page, Roderic D M ^a  

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Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Encyclopaedia of life; Taxonomy; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATABASE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENOMICS; INFORMATICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 78649623447     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-010-0028-9     Document Type: Article

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