Biological collections and ecological/environmental research: a review, some observations and a look to the future

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00098.xPMID 19961469
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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