Providing baselines for biodiversity measurement.

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2005-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.TREE.2004.12.003PMID 16701351
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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