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Corresponding author: Jarrett Blair (jblair@uoguelph.ca)
Received: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 21 Aug 2017
© 2017 Jarrett Blair, Andrew Borrelli, Michelle Hotchkiss, Candace Park, Gleannan Perrett, Robert Hanner
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Citation: Blair J, Borrelli A, Hotchkiss M, Park C, Perrett G, Hanner R (2017) BioBeacon: an Online Field Guide to Digital Biodiversity Information Resources. Proceedings of TDWG 1: e20472. https://doi.org/10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20472
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Managing the biodiversity crisis requires access to credible information on species, as well as their changing abundance and spatio-temporal distributions, among other variables. Technological advances are expanding both the variety and volume of data available, resulting in the emergence of biodiversity informatics as a rapidly growing research paradigm. Many online resources exist, such as GBIF's resources and tools page (
Biodiversity, Informatics, Database
Jarrett Blair
University of Guelph, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario