Biodiversity informatics: Managing and applying primary biodiversity data

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1444, 2004, Pages 689-698

  Soberón, Jorge ^a   Peterson, A Townsend ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Species niches; Species ranges; Taxonomic capacity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA MANAGEMENT; NICHE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 1942455429     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1439     Document Type: Review

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