ThesauForm-Traits: A web based collaborative tool to develop a thesaurus for plant functional diversity research

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-44

  Laporte, Marie Angélique ^a,b   Mougenot, Isabelle ^b   Garnier, Eric ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b LIRMM   (France)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabulary; Functional diversity; Plant trait; Thesaurus; Tool; Web of data

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84865184015     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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