VegItaly: Technical features, crucial issues and some solutions

Plant Sociology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-79

  Gigante, D ^a   Acosta, A T R ^b   Agrillo, E ^c   Attorre, F ^c   Cambria, V E ^c   Casavecchia, S ^d   Chiarucci, A ^e   Del Vico, E ^c   De Sanctis, M ^c   Facioni, L ^e   Geri, F ^f   Guarino, R ^e   Landi, S ^a   Landucci, F ^h   Lucarini, D ⁱ   Panfili, E ^d   Pesaresi, S ^b   Prisco, I ^g   Rosati, L ^c   Spada, F ^a   Venanzoni, R ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

ⁱ Aspix Consultancy Company   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data sharing; Ecoinformatics; Italian vegetation database; Phytosociology; Syntaxonomy; Taxonomic listVegetation plot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION INDEX;

ITALY;

EID: 84872700716     PISSN: 22801855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7338/pls2012492/05     Document Type: Article

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