Electronic field guides and user communities in the ecoinformatics revolution

Conservation Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Stevenson, R D ^a   Haber, William A ^b   Morris, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION KEY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NATURE CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0141763705     PISSN: 11955449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00505-070103     Document Type: Review

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