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Title Biodiversity information serving our nation (BISON).

Publication Info. [Reston, VA] : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

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Summary A product of the U.S. Geological Survey's Core Science Analytics and Synthesis Program, BISON is an information system that allows users to access, explore, and download U.S. species occurrence data from participating data providers. Researchers collect species occurrence data, records of an organism at a particular time in a particular place, as a primary or ancillary function of many biological field investigations. Presently, these data reside in numerous distributed systems and formats (including publications) and are consequently not being used to their full potential. As a step toward addressing this challenge, the Core Science Analytics and Synthesis (CSAS) program of the US Geological Survey (USGS) is developing Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), an integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. BISON will leverage the accumulated human and infrastructural resources of the long-term USGS investment in research and information management and delivery. Frequently updated.
Note Description based on May 30, 2013 update; title from home page (viewed on June 24, 2013).
Subject Biogeography -- United States -- Information services.
Species -- United States -- Information services.
Added Author USGS Core Science Analytics & Synthesis Program.
Note BISON
Gpo Item No. 0621-V-06 (online)
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