How global is the global biodiversity information facility?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Yesson, Chris ^a   Brewer, Peter W ^a   Sutton, Tim ^a   Caithness, Neil ^a   Pahwa, Jaspreet S ^b   Burgess, Mikhaila ^b   Gray, W Alec ^b   White, Richard J ^b   Jones, Andrew C ^b   Bisby, Frank A ^a   Culham, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUTOMATION; BIODIVERSITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL LEGUME DATABASE; LEGUME; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNATIONALITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42549166500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001124     Document Type: Article

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