Big hitting collectors make massive and disproportionate contribution to the discovery of plant species.
Discovering biological diversity is a fundamental goal--made urgent by the alarmingly high rate of extinction. We have compiled information from more than 100,000 type specimens to quantify the role of collectors in the discovery of plant diversity. Our results show that more than half of all type s...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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