A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities

BMC Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hardisty, Alex ^a   Roberts, Dave ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Data sharing; Decadal vision; e Infrastructure; Grand challenge; Informatics; Research infrastructure; Systems approaches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; DEVICES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84876141312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-16     Document Type: Letter

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