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Article: Biodiversity databases -- biodiversity information on every desktop.
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- M2 Presswire
- Article date:
- September 29, 2000
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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 September 2000-US NSF: Biodiversity databases -- biodiversity information on every desktop (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Access to information about the world's biodiversity is badly needed by a wide range of users, say resource managers, policy-makers, conservationists, scientists and the general public. In order to bring such information to the Internet, where it will be freely accessible to anyone, a consortium of 28 interested countries and intergovernmental organizations is coordinating plans to form the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF will consist of a series of interconnected databases ...