Global biogeographical data bases on marine fishes: Caveat emptor

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 891-892

  Robertson, D Ross ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Erroneous GIS data; Faulty biogeographical analyses; Global data bases; Marine fishes

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FISH; GIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

PISCES;

EID: 54049119630     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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