The big questions for biodiversity informatics

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-168

  Peterson, A Townsend ^a   Knapp, Sandra ^b   Guralnick, Robert ^c   Soberó N, Jorge ^a   Holder, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Biodiversity data capture; Data integration; Ecology; Evolutionary biology; Informatics; Interpretation; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956554328     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14772001003739369     Document Type: Review

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