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This volume is the third in the trilogy that provides a review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes list every one of almost 55,000 known species of New Zealand's animals, plants, and micro-organisms. These volumes are affiliated with Species 2000, and international scientific project with the long-term goal of enumerating all described species on Earth into one seamless list - the Catalogue of Life, a kind of online biological telephone directory

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Author:   Dennis P. Gordon
Publisher:   Canterbury University Press
Imprint:   Canterbury University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   2.381kg
ISBN:  

9781927145050

ISBN 10:   1927145058
Pages:   616
Publication Date:   01 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Dennis P. Gordon is a principal scientist at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, where he has led a marine biodiversity research group for more than 13 years. He also serves on the international teams that are respectively coordinating the production of the Catalogue of Life and the World Register of Marine Species. He is the author of first two volumes of New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity.

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