Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications / edited by Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries

Published:: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2007]
Copyright Date:: ©2007
Physical Description:: xii, 193 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Additional Creators:: Curry, Gordon B. and Humphries, C. J. (Christopher John), 1947-

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Series:

The Systematics Association special volume series ; 73

Contents:

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 ... [et al.] -- 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].

Subject(s):

Biodiversity—Databases

ISBN:

9780415332903 (alk. paper)
0415332907 (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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