Willing or unwilling to share primary biodiversity data: Results and implications of an international survey

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 399-406

  Huang, Xiaolei ^a,b   Hawkins, Bradford A ^b   Lei, Fumin ^a   Miller, Gary L ^c   Favret, Colin ^d   Zhang, Ruiling ^a   Qiao, Gexia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Data archiving; Data sharing; Database; Journal policy; Primary biodiversity data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867366157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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