The WISER way of organising ecological data from European rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-28

  Moe, S Jannicke ^a   Schmidt Kloiber, Astrid ^b   Dudley, Bernard J ^c   Hering, Daniel ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data management; Databases; EU Water Framework Directive (WFD); Intellectual property rights (IPR); Metadata; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; DATABASE; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; RIVER; TAXONOMY;

EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84873747151     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1337-0     Document Type: Article

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