Advances in global change research require open science by individual researchers

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2102-2110

  Wolkovich, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Regetz, James ^b   O'Connor, Mary I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Code management; Data management; Global change ecology; Open science; Scientific method

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLOBAL CHANGE;

EID: 84861882341     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02693.x     Document Type: Article

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