This informal paper summarizes observations of the VLDB 2002 panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI) and the subsequent discussion. Background on BDEI is provided a...
This paper provides an overview of efforts to create an informatics infrastructure for the biodiversity community. A vast amount of biodiversity information exists, but no compreh...
Biological knowledge can be inferred from three major levels of information: molecules, organisms and ecologies. Bioinformatics is an established field that has made significant a...
A long standing debate within ecology is to what extent ecosystem complexity and stability are related. Landmark theoretical studies claimed that the more complex an ecosystem, the...
James Dyke, Jamie McDonald-Gibson, Ezequiel A. Di ...
Biodiversity informatics (BDI) information is both highly localized and highly distributed. The temporal and spatial contexts of data collection events are generally of primary imp...