The Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI) provides a mechanism to deliver an integrated, annotated checklist of the species occurring in Europe, aiming to cover the
Western Palearctic biogeographic region. PESI integrates the efforts of five community networks, Euro+Med PlantBase (E+M);
Fauna Europaea Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular Europe
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(FaEu); the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS), and Species Fungorum Europe (SF-EU), into a single European checklist. The PESI checklist (also called EU-nomen) serves as a taxonomic standard and backbone for Europe.
References
External links
A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure - PESI (web portal)A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure - PESI (project website)
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International Innovation (2011) ''Standardising taxonomic data''. 2011-1: 281-292
Biological databases
Information technology organizations based in Europe
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