Discovering ecologically relevant knowledge from published studies through geosemantic searching

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 674-682

  Karl, Jason W ^a   Herrick, Jeffrey E ^a   Unnasch, Robert S ^b   Gillan, Jeffrey K ^c   Ellis, Erle C ^d   Lutters, Wayne G ^e   Martin, Laura J ^f  

^a Jornada Experimental Range   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Geography and Environmental Systems ^*  (United States)

^e University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

georeferencing; knowledge discovery; metadata; semantic search; spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883189743     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.8.10     Document Type: Review

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