Taxonomy: No decline, but inertia

Cladistics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 567-570

  Tancoigne, Elise ^a   Dubois, Alain ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DATA MINING; INERTIA; INVENTORY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 84884419095     PISSN: 07483007     EISSN: 10960031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12019     Document Type: Article

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