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'PhyTaxR', a set of phytoplankton taxonomic curation tools in R

Taxonomic harmonisation is a persistent challenge for phytoplankton monitoring and biodiversity synthesis. Operational taxon fields often combine scientific names --some of which may be incomplete, misspelled, or otherwise non-standard-- with size classes, morphological descriptors, uncertainty qualifiers, vernacular labels, author citations, and historical nomenclature. Here we introduce…

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