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On the failure of modern species concepts
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Metadata
- Authors
- HEY, J.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-08
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 447-450
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2157030269
- Cited by
- 357
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 78.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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