Biodiversity Databases: Techniques, Politics, and ApplicationsGordon B. Curry, Chris J. Humphries With changes in technology and a renewed effort to catalog the world's biodiversity, huge amounts of data are being generated on biodiversity issues. As response to the call for better information systems to manage the biodiversity crisis, a wide range of solutions are being developed for inventorying, managing, and disseminating taxonomic data. This book brings together a diverse array of authors, expertise, and assessors that discuss technical developments to improve the construction, population, and dissemination of biodiversity information. It is designed to inform students and researchers of biodiversity about the changes and challenges that need to be understood by everyone in this information age. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The European Network for Biodiversity Information | 5 |
Chapter 3 Networking Taxonomic Concepts Uniting without Unitaryism | 13 |
Chapter 4 Networking Biological Collections Databases | 23 |
Chapter 5 Morphometric and Artificial Neural Network Approaches to the Automated Species Recognition Problem in Systematics | 37 |
Chapter 6 Automated Extraction of Biodiversity Data from Taxonomic Descriptions | 63 |
Chapter 7 The Grid and Biodiversity Informatics | 83 |
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