Taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1078-1083

  Cayuela, Luis ^a   Granzow de la Cerda, Íñigo ^b   Albuquerque, Fabio S ^c   Golicher, Duncan J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data cleaning; Nomenclature; Taxonomy; The Plant List

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871002349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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