Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications /

Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications / edited by Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries. - xii, 193 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm. - The Systematics Association special volume series ; 73 . - Systematics Association special volume ; no. 73. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The global biodiversity information facility (GBIF) / Meredith A. Lane and James. L. Edwards -- The European network for biodiversity information / Wouter Los and Cees H.J. Hof -- Networking taxonomic concepts--uniting without 'unitary-ism' / Walter G. Berendsohn and Mark Geoffrey -- Networking biological collections databases : building a European infrastructure / Malcolm J. Scoble and Walter G. Berendsohn -- A comparison between morphometric and artifical neural network approaches to the automated species recognition problem in systematics / Norman MacLeod, M. O'Neill, and Steven A. Walsh -- Automated extraction of biodiversity data from taxonomic descriptions / Gordon B. Curry and Richard J. Connor -- The grid and biodiversity informatics / Andrew C. Jones -- LIAS--an interactive database system from structured descriptive data of ascomycetes / Dagmar Triebel ... [and others] -- Linking biodiversity databases : preparing species diversity information sources by assembling, merging and linking databases / Richard J. White -- Priority areas for rattan conservation on Borneo / Jacob Andersen Sterling ... [et al].


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Biodiversity--Databases.


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QH541.15.B56 / B5735 2007