Still not enough taxonomists: Reply to Joppa et al.

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-66

  Bacher, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84856121203     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.003     Document Type: Letter

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