Recovery plan for the endangered taxonomy profession

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-63

  Pearson, David L ^a   Hamilton, Andrew L ^a   Erwin, Terry L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

amateur; parataxonomist; per capita gross domestic product; pro am; professional taxonomist

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851485694     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.1.11     Document Type: Article

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