Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6018, 2011, Pages 703-705

  Reichman, O J ^a   Jones, Matthew B ^a   Schildhauer, Mark P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; META-ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

ASTRONOMY; ECOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION; WORKFLOW;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

EID: 79951488002     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197962     Document Type: Review

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22. Supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (grant EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. Additional support for M.B.J. was provided by NSF grant OCI-0830944 and for O.J.R. by NSF grant DEB-0444217.