Geographic name resolution service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling

• Bradley L. Boyle ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bboyle@arizona.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-6655

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• Brian S. Maitner,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eversource Energy Center and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-9880

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• George G. C. Barbosa,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Rohith K. Sajja,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-7593

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• Xiao Feng,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

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• Cory Merow,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eversource Energy Center and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

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• Erica A. Newman,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6433-8594

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• Daniel S. Park,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America, Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America

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• Patrick R. Roehrdanz,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States of America

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• Brian J. Enquist

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America, The Santa Fe Institute, USA, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America

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