[PCA] NEWS: Species spellchecker fixes plant glitches
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Jun 15 08:11:58 CDT 2011
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110613/full/474263a.html
Species spellchecker fixes plant glitches
Online tool should weed out misspellings and duplications.
John Whitfield
Brian Enquist and his collaborators were delighted with their freshly
compiled data set of 22.5 million records on the distribution and traits
of plants in the Americas. But their delight turned to horror when they
realized that the data set contained 611,728 names: nearly twice as many
as there are thought to be plant species on Earth.
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