Biodiversity inventory and informatics in Southeast Asia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 955-972

  Webb, Campbell O ^a,b   Slik, J W Ferry ^c   Triono, Teguh ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Herbarium Bogoriense   (Indonesia)

^c KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^d INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity crisis; Citizen science; Digital photography; Distributed databases; DNA barcoding; Parataxonomists; Semantic web; Species discovery; Species identification; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DATABASE; DIGITAL IMAGE; LAND USE CHANGE; NEW SPECIES; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDONESIA;

EID: 77952091969     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9817-x     Document Type: Article

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