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Significance of Organism Observations

Booklet on the significance of organism observations by Steve Kelling of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Author(s): Steve Kelling
Publisher(s): GBIF, 2008
Target audience: Biodiversity project managers
Abstract: Gaining a solid understanding of the patterns by which organisms are distributed across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales requires vast amounts of species occurrence data. This paper goes deeper into the specific nature of observational data, their discovery and organization.
Bibliographic citation: Kelling, S. 2008. Significance of organism observations: Data discovery and access in biodiversity research. Report for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen. 20 pp. Available online at http://www.gbif.org/orc/?doc_id=1642.
Contributor(s): GBIF Secretariat
Rights: Permission to copy and/or distribute all or part of the information contained herein is granted, provided that such copies carry due attribution to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Rights Holder: Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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