Biodiversity databases
Subtitle: from cottage industry to industrial networks
By: editors, Gordon Curry and Chris Humphries.
Contributors: Curry, Gordon B.; Humphries, C. J. 1947-
Series: The Systematics Association special volume series
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415332903
Subjects: Biodiversity -- Databases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The global biodiversity information facility (GBIF) / Meredith A. Lane and James. L. Edwards; value: The European network for biodiversity information / Wouter Los and Cess H.J. Hof; value: Networking taxonomic concepts : uniting without unitary-ism / Walter G. Berendsohn and Mark Geoffrey; value: Networking biological collections databases : building a European infrastructure / Malcolm J. Scoble and Walter G. Berendsohn; value: A comparison between morphometric and artifical neural net approaches to the automated species-recognition problem in systematics / N. MacLeod, M.O. Neill, and S.A. Walsh; value: Automated extraction of biodiversity data from taxonomic descriptions / Gordon B. Curry and Richard Connor; value: The GRID and biodiversity informatics / Andrew C. Jones; value: LIAS : an interactive database system from structured descriptive data of ascomycetes / Dagmar Triebel ... [et al.]; value: Linking biodiversity databases : preparing species diversity information sources by assembling, merging, and linking databases / Richard J. White; value: Priority areas for rattan conservation on Borneo / Jacob Andersen ... [et al].