New species in the old world: Europe as a frontier in biodiversity exploration, a Test Bed for 21st century taxonomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Fontaine, Benoît ^a   van Achterberg, Kees ^b   Alonso Zarazaga, Miguel Angel ^c   Araujo, Rafael ^c   Asche, Manfred ^d   Aspöck, Horst ^e   Aspöck, Ulrike ^f   Audisio, Paolo ^g   Aukema, Berend ^h   Bailly, Nicolas ⁱ   Balsamo, Maria ^j   Bank, Ruud A ^h   Belfiore, Carlo ^k   Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw ^l   Boxshall, Geoffrey ^m   Burckhardt, Daniel ⁿ   Chylarecki, Przemyslaw ^l   Deharveng, Louis ^a   Dubois, Alain ^a   Enghoff, Henrik ^o   Fochetti, Romolo ^k   Fontaine, Colin ^a   Gargominy, Olivier ^a   Lopez, Maria Soledad Gomez ^p   Goujet, Daniel ^a   Harvey, Mark S ^q   Heller, Klaus Gerhard ^r   van Helsdingen, Peter ^b   Hoch, Hannelore ^d   de Jong, Yde ^s   Karsholt, Ole ^o   Los, Wouter ^s   Magowski, Wojciech ^t   Massard, Jos A ^h   McInnes, Sandra J ^u   Mendes, Luis F ^v   Mey, Eberhard ^w   Michelsen, Verner ^o   Minelli, Alessandro ^x   Nafria, Juan M Nieto ^y   van Nieukerken, Erik J ^b   Pape, Thomas ^o   de Prins, Willy ^z   Ramos, Marian ^c   Ricci, Claudia ^aa   Roselaar, Cees ^ab   Rota, Emilia ^ac   Segers, Hendrik ^ad   Timm, Tarmo ^ae   van Tol, Jan ^b   Bouchet, Philippe ^a   more..

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h Natural Resource Management ^*

ⁱ WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^l MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^m DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^q WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^t ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^u BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^v INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^w Naturhistorisches Museum im Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg zu Rudolstadt   (Germany)

^x UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^y UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^z Sezione di Sistematica ed Ecologia animale e vegetale   (Belgium)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^ab Estonian University of Life Sciences   (Netherlands)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^ad ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^ae ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; FAUNA; FRESHWATER SPECIES; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; RESEARCH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84861399868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036881     Document Type: Article

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