BioGeomancer: automated georeferencing to map the world's biodiversity data

Robert P Guralnick; John Wieczorek; Reed Beaman; Robert J Hijmans; BioGeomancer Working Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381

BioGeomancer: automated georeferencing to map the world's biodiversity data

PLoS Biol. 2006 Nov;4(11):e381. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381.

Authors

Robert P Guralnick¹, John Wieczorek, Reed Beaman, Robert J Hijmans; BioGeomancer Working Group

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CU Museum at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. Robert.Guralnick@colorado.edu

Abstract

The BioGeomancer Project provides a toolkit to georeference data and specimens collected for natural history collections, a crucial task if the potential of these specimens is to be fully realized.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biodiversity*
Computational Biology / methods*
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Databases, Factual*
Earth, Planet
Environment
Geography / methods*