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Mediterranean lichens on‐line
Author(s) -
Grabe Martin,
Nimis Pier Luigi
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1224389
Subject(s) - lichen , taxon , checklist , the internet , commission , mediterranean climate , geography , world wide web , computer science , ecology , business , biology , archaeology , paleontology , finance
Summary Grube, M. & Nimis, P. L.: Mediterranean lichens on‐line. – Taxon 46: 487‐493. 1997. – ISSN 0040‐0262. In the frame of a project of the OPTIMA Commission for Lichens, a workspace has been created on the Internet for the compilation of a checklist of Mediterranean lichens. The World Wide Web now offers quick access to the lichen checklists of several countries, and facilitates the coordination of future work through a common format of data presentation. As a first step, the checklists were placed on the Web as plain text files, except for the lichen data from Slovenia, which are organized in a relational database. Placing new information on the Web is equivalent to a kind of publication, which raises some issues which need being discussed.