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DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 891-892Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00519.x
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Marine fishes; global data bases; erroneous GIS data; faulty biogeographical analyses
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A review of georeferenced collection-site records for Caribbean shore-fishes served by major online distributors of aggregated biodiversity data found large-scale errors in over a third of the species and genera, in nearly two-thirds of the families. To avoid compromising the value of their services to the global science community online providers must actively address the question of data quality.
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