Towards a collaborative, global infrastructure for biodiversity assessment

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 663-672

  Guralnick, Robert P ^a,b   Hill, Andrew W ^a   Lane, Meredith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BioGeomancer; Data visualization; Geographic Information Systems; Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Global biodiversity services; Google Earth; Species richness estimation; Survey gap analysis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; INTERNET; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE CONSERVATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TAXONOMY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; INFORMATICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34347252653     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01063.x     Document Type: Review

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