Trackable life: Data, sequence, and organism in movement ecology

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 137-147

  Benson, Etienne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal tracking; Big data; Bioinformatics; Data centric science; History of ecology; Movement ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84959288774     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.005     Document Type: Article

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