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Assessing the efficacy of higher-taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories

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  • 1. Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), Santa Teresa, Espırito Santo, Brazil & Programa de Pos-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
  • 2. Coleção de Invertebrados, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
  • 3. Plazi, Bern, Switzerland
  • 4. Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Director, Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, Ohio, USA
  • 5. Programa de Pos-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil & Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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Souza, Jorge Luiz Pereira, Fernandes, Itanna Oliveira, Agosti, Donat, Johnson, Norman F., Baccaro, Fabrıcio Beggiato (2021): Assessing the efficacy of higher-taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories. Animal Conservation 25 (3): 370-381, DOI: 10.1111/acv.12758

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