Web-based tools for data analysis and quality assurance on a life-history trait database of plants of Northwest Europe

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1536-1543

  Stadler, Michael ^a   Ahlers, Dirk ^a   Bekker, Renée M ^b   Finke, Jens ^c   Kunzmann, Dierk ^c   Sonnenschein, Michael ^c  

^a OFFIS INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data mining in ecological data; Environmental informatics; Plant trait database; Reviewing of database content

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DATA MINING IN ECOLOGICAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATICS; PLANT TRAIT DATABASE; REVIEWING OF DATABASE CONTENT;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33746468949     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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