It's good to share: Why environmental scientists' ethics are out of date

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 69-73

  Soranno, Patricia A ^a   Cheruvelil, Kendra S ^a   Elliott, Kevin C ^a   Montgomery, Georgina M ^b  

^a KSC and KCE ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Sharing; Environmental Science; History; Inclusion; Policy Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982279941     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu169     Document Type: Article

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