Limitations of biodiversity databases : case study on seed-plant diversity in Tenerife, Canary Islands

Databases on the distribution of species can be used to describe the geographic patterns of biodiversity. Nevertheless, they have limitations. We studied three of these limitations: (1) inadequacy of raw data to describe richness patterns due to sampling bias, (2) lack of survey effort assessment (a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. - 1999. - 21(2007), 3 vom: 25. Juni, Seite 853-63
1. Verfasser: Hortal, Joaquín (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Lobo, Jorge M, Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't