Journal article
Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery.
- Abstract:
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Despite the importance of species discovery, the processes including collecting, recognizing, and describing new species are poorly understood. Data are presented for flowering plants, measuring quantitatively the lag between the date a specimen of a new species was collected for the first time and when it was subsequently described and published. The data from our sample of new species published between 1970 and 2010 show that only 16% were described within five years of being collected for ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Volume:
- 107
- Issue:
- 51
- Pages:
- 22169-22171
- Publication date:
- 2010-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1091-6490
- ISSN:
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0027-8424
- Source identifiers:
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103651
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:103651
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- Local pid:
- pubs:103651
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2010
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