The tempo and mode of the taxonomic correction process: How taxonomists have corrected and recorrected North American bird species over the last 127 years

Gaurav Vaidya; Denis Lepage; Robert Guralnick

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195736

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The tempo and mode of the taxonomic correction process: How taxonomists have corrected and recorrected North American bird species over the last 127 years

Gaurav Vaidya ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gaurav@ggvaidya.com

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-0454

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Denis Lepage,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bird Studies Canada, Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada
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Robert Guralnick

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural History and the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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The tempo and mode of the taxonomic correction process: How taxonomists have corrected and recorrected North American bird species over the last 127 years

Gaurav Vaidya,
Denis Lepage,
Robert Guralnick

Published: April 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195736

About the Authors

Gaurav Vaidya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gaurav@ggvaidya.com

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-0454

Denis Lepage

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bird Studies Canada, Port Rowan, Ontario, Canada

Robert Guralnick

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Natural History and the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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