Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications /: techniques, politics, and applications. (©2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries.
• Other Names: Curry, Gordon B; Humphries, C. J (Christopher John), 1947-
• 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 [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 [and others].
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages, [4] pages of plates), illustrations, maps (some color)
• Subjects: 578.01/2; Biodiversity -- Databases; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Taxonomy; Biodiversity; Biologisk mångfald; Biodiversität; Datenbank; Biodiversity; Databases; Electronic books; Databases
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780203022542; 0203022548; 1281081604; 9781281081605; 9781439832547; 1439832544
• Related ISBNs: 9780415332903; 0415332907
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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