Determining species boundaries in a world full of rarity: Singletons, species delimitation methods

Systematic Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 165-169

  Lim, Gwynne S ^a   Balke, Michael ^b   Meier, Rudolf ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INVERTEBRATE; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84555177826     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr030     Document Type: Review

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