Biological invasion impact assessment system: From idea to implementation

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-51

  Narščius, Aleksas ^a   Olenin, Sergej ^a   Zaiko, Anastasija ^a   Minchin, Dan ^b  

^a KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b Marine Organism Investigations ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioinvasion database; Biopollution index; Ecological data management; Invasive alien species

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLASSIFICATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; META-ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855330629     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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