GBD-Explorer: Extending open source java GIS for exploring ecoregion-based biodiversity data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 94-102

  Zhang, Jianting ^a   Pennington, Deana D ^a   Liu, Xianhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecoregion; Open source GIS; Species distribution; Taxonomic tree

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOREGION; GIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 34548514192     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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