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recently, a complete Special Issue of Journal of Vegetation Science on eocinformatics has
been published, which might be relevant for some of you:</span></font>
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Dengler, J., Ewald, J., Kühn, I., Peet, R. K. (2011) [Eds.]: Ecoinformatics and global change. –
J. Veg. Sci. 22: 577–749, Oxford.</span></font>
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You find it under: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.2011.22.issue-4/issuetoc.</span></font>
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One of the 15 articles gives an overview of the globally existent databases with vegetation-
plot data and also argues in favour of adequately rewarding the orgininators and hosts of
ecological databases:</span></font>
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Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Glöckler, F., Peet, R. K., De Cáceres, M., Chytrý, M., Ewald, J.,
Oldeland, J., Finckh, M., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Mucina, L., Rodwell, J. S., Schaminée, J. H. J.,
Spencer, N. (2011): The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource
for vegetation science. – J. Veg. Sci. 22: 582–597, Oxford.</span></font>
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All the best,</span></font>
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Jürgen</span></font>
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Dr. Jürgen Dengler</span></font>
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(Room 3.011)</span></font>
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Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology of Plants</span></font>
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Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden</span></font>
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University of Hamburg</span></font>
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Phone private: +49-4131-2195046 (NEW)</span></font>
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Fax: +49-40-42816-539</span></font>
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E-mail: dengler@botanik.uni-hamburg.de</span></font>
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Skype: juergen.dengler</span></font>
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URL: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/fbha063/fbha063_e.htm</span></font>
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European Dry Grassland Group (EDGG): http://www.edgg.org</span></font>
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Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): http://www.givd.info</span></font>
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Biodiversity in southern Africa: http://www.biota-africa.org/biotabook/</span></font>
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