3. What is biodiversity informatics?
How are biodiversity data used?
How are biodiversity data made available?
What are the key challenges?
What are its organizations?
Where can I go for more?
12. Chapman, A. D. 2005. Uses of Primary
Species-Occurrence Data, version 1.0.
Report for the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility, Copenhagen.
13. Uses of Primary Occurrence Data
1 Taxonomy: research, indices, floras/faunas, field guides,
phylogenies
2 Biogeography: distributional atlases, species distribution
modeling, species decline
3 Life Histories and Phenologies
4 Endangered, Migratory, and Invasive Species
5 Impact of Climate Change
6 Ecology, Evolution and Genetics: habitat loss, ecosystem
function
7 Environmental Planning: impact assessments
8 Conservation Planning: rapid biodiversity assessments,
identifying priority areas, reserve selection, sustainable use
14. Uses of Primary Occurrence Data
9 Health and Public Safety: disease and disease
vectors, bioterrorism, biosafety, parasitology
10 Bioprospecting
11 Border Control and Wildlife Trade
12 Education and Public Outreach
13 Ecotourism
14 Society and Politics: data repatriation
15 Recreational activities
71. What is biodiversity informatics?
How are biodiversity data used?
How are biodiversity data made available?
What are the key challenges?
What are its organizations?
Where can I go for more?
72. Thanks!
www.canadensys.net
@canadensys
@dpsSpiders
david.shorthouse@umontreal.ca
David P. Shorthouse
Editor's Notes
it aids in sequencing and annotating genomes and their observed mutations.Aids in development of biological and gene ontologies to organize and query biological dataplays a role in the analysis of gene and protein expression and regulation
computerized handling of any biodiversity informationIt typically builds on a foundation of taxonomic, biogeographic, or ecological information stored in digital form, which, with the application of modern computer techniques, can yield new ways to view and analyse existing information, as well as predictive models for information that does not yet exist
Coined by John Whiting in 1992 to cover the activities of an entity known as the Canadian Biodiversity Informatics Consortium, a group involved with fusing basic biodiversity information with environmental economics and geospatial information in the form of GPS and GIS.I coined the term as part of a title for what was at first a loose affiliation between about five agencies (including myself, a firm specializing in GPS, and GIS firm, a firm specializing in database management, a firm specializing in environmental economics, and a representative of the Canadian Museum of Naturelost any obligate connection with the GPS/GIS world and be associated with the computerized management of any aspects of biodiversity information