Spatial Gaps in Global Biodiversity Information and the Role of Citizen Science

BioScience

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 393-400

  Amano, Tatsuya ^a   Lamming, James D L ^a   Sutherland, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biodiversity data; conservation science; Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF); information bias; knowledge gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973441865     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biw022     Document Type: Article

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