Ecoinformatics and global change - an overdue liaison

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 577-581

  Dengler, Jürgen ^a   Ewald, Jörg ^b   Kühn, Ingolf ^c   Peet, Robert K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioinformatics; Data sharing; Database; Macroecology; Modelling; Phytosociology; Species distribution model; Vegetation plot

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MACROECOLOGY; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION;

EID: 79960084571     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01313.x     Document Type: Article

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