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How global is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility?

A study, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, and conducted by biologists at the University of Reading and computer scientists at the University of Cardiff, has revealed large gaps in data available to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility -- the world's largest single data network which gives access to millions of current digitised biodiversity records. The paper was published in the Nov. 7 issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

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