'Ocean biodiversity informatics': A new era in marine biology research and management

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 316, Issue , 2006, Pages 203-214

  Costello, Mark J ^a   Vanden Berghe, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b FLANDERS MARINE INSTITUTE VLIZ   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Archiving; Biogeography; Data exchange protocols; Data schema; Interoperability; Nomenclature; Peer review; Quality assurance; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; GIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EID: 33746603997     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps316203     Document Type: Article

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