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Anthropause on tardigrade urban communities during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Salta, Argentina

  • 1. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Instituto para el Estudio de la Biodiversidad de Invertebrados, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina
  • 2. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Instituto para el Estudio de la Biodiversidad de Invertebrados, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina & CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina
  • 3. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, La Pampa, Argentina
  • 4. CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina & Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, La Pampa, Argentina

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González-Reyes, Andrea, Grabosky, Alfonsina, Rocha, Mariana, Ballardini, Florentina, Ostertag, Belén, Rodríguez-Artigas, Sandra, Corronca, Daniel Fernández and José (2024): Anthropause on tardigrade urban communities during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in Salta, Argentina. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (1): 172-183, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad157, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad157

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