Digital innovation and taxonomy’s finest hour

Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-24

  Wheeler, Quentin D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84882099794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420008074     Document Type: Chapter

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