Towards global interoperability for supporting biodiversity research on essential biodiversity variables (EBVs)

Biodiversity

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 2015, Pages 99-107

  Kissling, W Daniel ^a   Hardisty, Alex ^b   García, Enrique Alonso ^c   Santamaria, Monica ^d   De Leo, Francesca ^d   Pesole, Graziano ^d,e   Freyhof, Jörg ^f   Manset, David ^g   Wissel, Silvia ^h   Konijn, Jacco ^h   Los, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g GNUBILA France   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

global change; global infrastructure cooperation; informatics; legal interoperability; user priorities; workflow development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945471491     PISSN: 14888386     EISSN: 21600651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2015.1068709     Document Type: Article

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