Assessing the Primary Data Hosted by the Spanish Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Otegui, Javier ^a   Ariño, Arturo H ^a   Encinas, María A ^b   Pando, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE DATABASE; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK;

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; SPAIN;

EID: 84872862994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055144     Document Type: Article

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