Specimens as primary data: Museums and 'open science'

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 237-238

  Schilthuizen, Menno ^a,b   Vairappan, Charles S ^b   Slade, Eleanor M ^c   Mann, Darren J ^c   Miller, Jeremy A ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; INFORMATION CENTER; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MUSEUMS; NATURAL HISTORY;

EID: 84928763537     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.03.002     Document Type: Letter

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