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Sustainable Biodiversity Databasing: International, Collaborative, Dynamic, Centralised

Costello, Mark J.; Horton, Tammy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4250-1068; Kroh, Andreas. 2018 Sustainable Biodiversity Databasing: International, Collaborative, Dynamic, Centralised. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 33 (11). 803-805. 10.1016/j.tree.2018.08.006

Abstract
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a sustainable model of international collaboration around a centralised database that provides expert validated biodiversity data freely online. This model could be replicated for the over 1.2 million terrestrial and freshwater species to improve quality control and data management in biology and ecology globally.
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NOC Programmes > Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems
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