The WISER metadatabase: The key to more than 100 ecological datasets from European rivers, lakes and coastal waters

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-38

  Schmidt Kloiber, Astrid ^a   Moe, S Jannicke ^b   Dudley, Bernard ^c   Strackbein, Jörg ^d   Vogl, Robert ^a  

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

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic metadata; Data accessibility; Ecological databases; Intellectual property rights; Online query tool; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FACILITATION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; METADATA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RIVER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873749940     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1295-6     Document Type: Article

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