Diverse or uniform? - Intercomparison of two major German project databases for interdisciplinary collaborative functional biodiversity research

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 10-19

  Lotz, Thomas ^a   Nieschulze, Jens ^b   Bendix, Jörg ^a   Dobbermann, Maik ^a   König Ries, Birgitta ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative research project; Data acquisition; Data curation; Data exploration; Information management system; Metadata

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH WORK; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION;

GERMANY;

EID: 84857923233     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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