Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’

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Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’. / Gąsiorek, Piotr.

I: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024.

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Gąsiorek, P 2024, 'Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad191

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Gąsiorek, P. (2024). Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad191

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Gąsiorek P. Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad191

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Gąsiorek, Piotr. / Catch me if you can, or how paradigms of tardigrade biogeography evolved from cosmopolitism to ‘localism’. I: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2024.

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