Barcoding Life to Conserve Biological Diversity: Beyond the Taxonomic Imperative
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1 Agriculture and Environment Program Area, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 3 International Affairs and Biodiversity Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), Lima, Peru, 4 Department of Economics, University of Puerto Rico-Rı́o Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of America, 5 Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 6 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., United States of America, 7 Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 8 Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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