Best practice for biodiversity data management and publication

Biological Conservation

Volumn 173, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-73

  Costello, Mark J ^a   Wieczorek, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; Conservation; Data standards; Global biodiversity information facility; Methods; Ocean biogeographic information system; Species 2000; World register of marine species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899879261     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.10.018     Document Type: Review

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