The strong influence of collection bias on biodiversity knowledge shortfalls of Brazilian terrestrial biodiversity

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions

• Publication date

  2016-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.12489
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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