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Carabid beetle assemblages (Coleoptera, Carabidae) across urban-rural gradients: an international comparison

We studied communities of carabid beetles in residual forest patchesalong urban-suburban-rural gradients in three cities (Helsinki, Finland; Sofia,Bulgaria and Edmonton, Canada) to examine their…
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The search for common anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity: a global network

We introduce an initiative to assess and compare landscape changes related to human activities on a global scale, using a single group of invertebrates. The GLOBENET programme uses common field…
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The Genus Carabus in Europe : A Synthesis

The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science

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The establishment of the 'biodiversity data paper' is proposed as one possible mechanism to offer scholarly recognition for efforts and investment by data publishers in authoring rich metadata and publishing them as citable academic papers.
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Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web

Abstract Fauna Europaea is Europe's main zoological taxonomic index, making the scientific names and distributions of all living, currently known, multicellular, European land and freshwater animals…
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Why We Need Sustainable Networks Bridging Countries, Disciplines, Cultures and Generations for Aquatic Biomonitoring 2.0: A Perspective Derived From the DNAqua-Net COST Action

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Creative Commons licenses and the non-commercial condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information

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This contribution focuses on the NC condition, its advantages, disadvantages and appropriate scope, and contributes material towards a risk analysis for potential re-users of NC-licensed works.
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Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal

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The first series of papers published in Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) are announced, which provides the first workflow to support the full life cycle of a manuscript - from writing through submission, community peer-review, publication and dissemination, all within a single online collaborative environment.
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Biodiversity inventories in high gear: DNA barcoding facilitates a rapid biotic survey of a temperate nature reserve

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This model of rapid generation and dissemination of essential biodiversity data could be followed to conduct regional assessments of biodiversity status and change, and potentially be employed for evaluating progress towards the Aichi Targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020.
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Community Next Steps for Making Globally Unique Identifiers Work for Biocollections Data

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The main outcome was consensus on key issues, including recognition of differences between legacy and new biocollections processes, the need for identifier metadata profiles that can report information on identifier persistence missions, and the unambiguous indication of the type of object associated with the identifier.
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