Time to change how we describe biodiversity.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.007PMID 22189359
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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