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Archive<\/p>\n

Legacy BIEN materials and earlier resources<\/h2>\n

Earlier BIEN pages and materials are retained here for reference and provenance.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Archive and Legacy BIEN<\/h2>\n

This section preserves historical BIEN web material for continuity and provenance. Legacy pages may contain earlier interfaces, terminology, and workflow descriptions that have been superseded.<\/p>\n

Treat archived material as background context, and use current BIEN methods and citation pages for present-day workflows and publication standards.<\/p>\n

Previous database versions<\/h3>\n

Direct links to superseded BIEN database versions, retained for reproducibility and provenance.<\/p>\n

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BIEN 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Fourth-generation BIEN database release.<\/p>\n

View →<\/a><\/div>\n

BIEN 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Rebuilt schema (2012), based in part on VegBank; includes sub-version 3.4 (January 2017).<\/p>\n

View →<\/a><\/div>\n

BIEN 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier release documenting data sources, validations, phylogeny, and species range models.<\/p>\n

View →<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Related legacy resources<\/h3>\n
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Previous BIEN versions (index)<\/a><\/p>\n

Index page linking all superseded database versions.<\/p>\n

View →<\/a><\/div>\n

SALVIAS<\/a><\/p>\n

Legacy vegetation-plot data source integrated into BIEN.<\/p>\n

View →<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Return to current methods and workflow<\/a> | Go to citation guidance<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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