The perils of taxonomic inconsistency in quantitative palaeoecology: Experiments with testate amoeba data

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Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-27

  Payne, Richard J ^a,b   Lamentowicz, Mariusz ^c   Mitchell, Edward A D ^d,e,f  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 78650351850     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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