Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): A novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data

BioInvasions Records

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 235-245

  Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a   Bogucarskis, Konstantins ^a   Gatto, Francesca ^a   Vandekerkhove, Jochen ^a   Deriu, Ivan ^a   Cardoso, Ana Cristina ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Interoperable web services; Online databases; Standardization; Widgets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873971612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22421300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/bir.2012.1.4.01     Document Type: Article

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