Linking Biodiversity Databases: Preparing Species Diversity Information Sources by Assembling, Merging and Linking Databases

Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 111-128

  White, Richard J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60349118220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781439832547-9     Document Type: Chapter

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