The Biodiversity Informatics Landscape: Elements, Connections and Opportunities [PDF]
There are a multitude of biodiversity informatics projects, datasets, databases and initiatives at the global level, and many more at regional, national, and sometimes local levels.
Heather Bingham +27 more
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A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. [PDF]
Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community's efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved.
Hardisty A +80 more
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The Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility as a best-practice model for biodiversity data infrastructures [PDF]
Biodiversity informatics has advanced rapidly with the maturation of major biodiversity data infrastructures (BDDIs), such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility sharing unprecedented data volumes.
Leif Schulman +5 more
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Towards a Curriculum for Biodiversity Informatics [PDF]
Biodiversity informatics has been characterized as a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, which aims to bring together the areas of biodiversity and informatics. A study was conducted looking at the current level of activity within the GBIF Participant countries and its associated network in relation to work-based training and/or academic teaching ...
Fatima Parker-Allie +15 more
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Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics: Coordinating the state-of-the-art internationally for biodiversity informatics in Antarctica [PDF]
Biodiversity informatics have emerged as a key asset in wildlife and ecological conservation around the world. This is especially true in Antarctica, where climate change continues to threaten marine and terrestrial species. It is well documented that the polar regions experience the most drastic rate of climate change compared to the rest of the world
Chen,Thomas, Chen, Thomas
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Unifying European Biodiversity Informatics (BioUnify) [PDF]
In order to preserve the variety of life on Earth, we must understand it better. Biodiversity research is at a pivotal point with research projects generating data at an ever increasing rate. Structuring, aggregating, linking and processing these data in a meaningful way is a major challenge.
Dimitrios Koureas +22 more
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Correcting the disconnect between phylogenetics and biodiversity informatics [PDF]
Rich collections of biodiversity data are now synthesized in publically available databases and phylogenetic knowledge now provides a sound understanding of the origin of organisms and their place in the tree of life. However, these knowledge bases are poorly linked, leading to underutilization or worse, an incorrect understanding of biodiversity ...
Miller, Joseph T., Jolley-Rogers, Garry
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Biodiversity informatics: the emergence of a field. [PDF]
Recent years have seen great technological advances that have helped usher in a new generation of approaches to understand and share knowledge about the planet in which we live. A number of major initiatives that aim to catalyze necessary technological and biological advances synergistically have emerged globally.
Sarkar IN.
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Clarifying concepts and terms in biodiversity informatics. [PDF]
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” - Confucius, Analects, Book XIII, Chapter 3, verses 4-7, translated by James Legge Two workshops (hereafter described as “workshops”) were held in 2012, which ...
Deck J +16 more
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PEMBANGUNAN DATABASE MANGROVE UNTUK BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS BIOFARMAKA IPB
Mangroves are a source of traditional medicine that can be used as a source of bioactive compounds. With the conversion of mangrove ecosystem into another designation led to the extinction of mangrove ecosystems.
Yeni Herdiyeni +2 more
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