An International View of National Biological Surveys

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Issue Date
1996-01-01Author
Soberón, Jorge
Llorente, Jorge
Benitez, Hesiquio
Publisher
Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Museums and herbaria in industrialized countries hold a huge amount of data in the form of labels associated with specimens collected in developing countries. These data represent a significant part of the existing information on biodiversity available for most developing countries. In this paper we first discuss the usefulness of the label information, providing some examples from Mexico. Acquiring and updating the information requires international cooperation, including the agreement of common policies for ownership and use of the data. Beneficiaries of such efforts will be not only the countries that assemble the databases from foreign museums, but the international scientific community as well, due to the increased scientific value that large databases coupled with modern computer technologies provide.
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0026-6493Collections
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Soberón, Jorge; Llorente, Jorge; Benitez, Hesiquio. "An International View of National Biological Surveys." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 83(4):562-273. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.2307/2399997
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