The document discusses how the online Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) database can be used to support innovation in undergraduate education. It provides an overview of EOL, including that it contains information on 1.9 million known species from authoritative sources. It also describes how students can contribute content by researching and writing brief summaries of high priority species. Hands-on activities are suggested, such as using the collection tool to group specimens or creating food webs using the Ecosystem Explorer.
The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informa...drielinger
The document discusses the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project, which aims to create a web page for every known species. It provides details on the project's goals and structure, as well as its partnerships with other biodiversity organizations. These include the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which will digitize literature to support the EOL by providing the scientific underpinning. The BHL is forming collaborations internationally to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online.
The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative online resource that aggregates information about the 1.9 million known species into taxon pages. It brings together content from various partners, including scientists, museums, and universities. Each taxon page contains tabs with overview information, details, media, maps, names and classifications, community interactions, resources, and literature about that species. Users can search for species and filter results. The EOL prioritizes completing pages for species lacking information and works with students and faculty to contribute new summaries.
The document summarizes the goals and activities of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project, which aims to digitize the published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It discusses BHL's partnerships with other organizations like the Encyclopedia of Life to aggregate content. It also provides details on BHL's scanning operations and efforts to engage international partners to expand its global coverage of literature.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible. It notes that biodiversity information exists within a complex "knowledge ecology" of various organizations, individuals, data flows, and more. The BHL seeks to digitize the core literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible to fit within this dynamic knowledge system. It provides details on the BHL's global scope, members, digital collections, and efforts to ensure long-term preservation of content.
Botanical Literature Goes Global: The Biodiversity Heritage Library warnemen
The BHL is an international collaboration of natural history libraries working together to make biodiversity literature available for use by the widest possible audience through open access and sustainable management.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
The document discusses how the online Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) database can be used to support innovation in undergraduate education. It provides an overview of EOL, including that it contains information on 1.9 million known species from authoritative sources. It also describes how students can contribute content by researching and writing brief summaries of high priority species. Hands-on activities are suggested, such as using the collection tool to group specimens or creating food webs using the Ecosystem Explorer.
The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informa...drielinger
The document discusses the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project, which aims to create a web page for every known species. It provides details on the project's goals and structure, as well as its partnerships with other biodiversity organizations. These include the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which will digitize literature to support the EOL by providing the scientific underpinning. The BHL is forming collaborations internationally to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online.
The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative online resource that aggregates information about the 1.9 million known species into taxon pages. It brings together content from various partners, including scientists, museums, and universities. Each taxon page contains tabs with overview information, details, media, maps, names and classifications, community interactions, resources, and literature about that species. Users can search for species and filter results. The EOL prioritizes completing pages for species lacking information and works with students and faculty to contribute new summaries.
The document summarizes the goals and activities of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project, which aims to digitize the published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It discusses BHL's partnerships with other organizations like the Encyclopedia of Life to aggregate content. It also provides details on BHL's scanning operations and efforts to engage international partners to expand its global coverage of literature.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible. It notes that biodiversity information exists within a complex "knowledge ecology" of various organizations, individuals, data flows, and more. The BHL seeks to digitize the core literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible to fit within this dynamic knowledge system. It provides details on the BHL's global scope, members, digital collections, and efforts to ensure long-term preservation of content.
Botanical Literature Goes Global: The Biodiversity Heritage Library warnemen
The BHL is an international collaboration of natural history libraries working together to make biodiversity literature available for use by the widest possible audience through open access and sustainable management.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
This document provides resources for botany research available at Warner Memorial Library. It lists databases like EBSCOhost, PubMed, and JSTOR that contain authoritative articles. It also lists relevant books in the online catalog and ebook collections. Websites with botanical information are mentioned, such as the Botanical Society of America and Plant Information Online.
3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australia Kick Off Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 1 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a digital library that aims to make the literature of biodiversity openly available to the world. It has scanned over 70,000 volumes and 26 million pages of literature. The BHL was created in response to the "taxonomic impediment", which describes gaps in taxonomic knowledge. It works with natural history institutions around the world to digitize their collections. The BHL provides open access to this literature and develops tools to enhance access, such as name finding and citation services.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
EOL is an online encyclopedia of life that provides information on over 1.9 million known species. It aims to be a comprehensive resource built collaboratively by scientific experts and the public. Typical species pages provide details on taxonomy, description, ecology, and multimedia. Contributors include research institutions, scientists, educators, and citizens who can submit photos, videos and other content. EOL also partners with projects like the Census of Marine Life to provide occurrence data and maps. It offers tools for education including podcasts, an interactive field guide, and collaborative authoring environments for creating species pages.
The document summarizes three biodiversity resources: the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and opportunities for involvement through the EOL. The EOL is a website with 1.8 million species pages that allows the public to submit photos and data. The BHL scans biodiversity literature and makes it searchable online and linked through EOL. The document describes how individuals can get involved by sharing photos, becoming a curator, or partnering to provide content. Funding opportunities are provided through the Biodiversity Synthesis Center and EOL Fellows Program.
This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project and its role in supporting other biodiversity initiatives like the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The BHL aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It has already digitized over 4 million pages and works closely with groups like EOL to integrate taxonomic data. The document outlines the BHL's goals, partnerships, digitization process, and how it brings together distributed information on species through its use of taxonomic intelligence.
The document discusses how the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides open access to over 40 million pages of biodiversity literature. It mobilizes this content by identifying over 100 million scientific names embedded in digitized texts. Tools and services described include Biostor for extracting and visualizing data from BHL, Synonyms for visualizing changes in scientific names over time, and links from BHL to the Encyclopedia of Life and Flickr to share images. The BHL makes bibliographic metadata and images available through various formats and APIs to maximize access and reuse of its biodiversity literature.
The document discusses the completion of Linnaeus' task of cataloguing Earth's biodiversity through the development of ZooBank, an online registry for the nomenclature of animal names. It outlines how previous works like Systema Naturae, Zoological Record, and Index Animalium helped in this effort. ZooBank would provide globally unique identifiers for names, publications, authors, and type specimens to facilitate accessibility, completeness, accuracy, and quality control of nomenclatural data online. This would support the goals of transparent taxonomy and serve various stakeholders.
Biodiversity Heritage Library : Development and PartnerhipsNancy Gwinn
Biodiversity Heritage Library. Development and Partnerships. Nancy E. Gwinn. Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Group, National Science Foundation, March 24, 2008, Washington, D.C.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going GlobalMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Missouri Botanical Garden Staff Meeting. August 19, 2009. Saint Louis, MO.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a collaborative online resource that provides information on 1.9 million named species. It aggregates data from various content partners into consistent taxon pages with tabs for media, descriptions, and more. EOL offers educational resources like podcasts, Google Earth tours, and tools for creating collections, field guides, games, and observations to engage students in biodiversity. Teachers can access these free multimedia resources at EOL.org to enhance science lessons.
This document describes a project to create a universal biological indexer and organizer. It aims to address the challenges of indexing and searching biological data using taxonomic names, which are complex due to issues like synonyms, homonyms, and changing classifications. The project involves creating databases called NameBank and ClassificationBank that index all taxonomic names and concepts. These will serve as the foundation for tools and applications to help integrate names into literature retrieval, search, and browsing of biological data from various sources. The end goal is a comprehensive portal and services that enable connections within the biological research community.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Projectchoare
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) aims to digitize the core published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It works with the global taxonomic community and rights holders. The BHL has begun scanning over 400,000 volumes from several founding institution partners. Its goals are to provide global access to biodiversity literature, which will change how taxonomists work, and to support projects like the Encyclopedia of Life. The BHL costs an estimated $20-30 million to complete and has raised around $12.5 million so far.
Kicking off a new NSF-supported project at University of Maryland called Biotracker. This show introduces Encyclopedia of Life to the students who will be creating games, a community, and computer vision tools for mobile phone-based identification of species.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned. June 30, 2008. Anaheim, CA.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
This document provides resources for botany research available at Warner Memorial Library. It lists databases like EBSCOhost, PubMed, and JSTOR that contain authoritative articles. It also lists relevant books in the online catalog and ebook collections. Websites with botanical information are mentioned, such as the Botanical Society of America and Plant Information Online.
3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australia Kick Off Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 1 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a digital library that aims to make the literature of biodiversity openly available to the world. It has scanned over 70,000 volumes and 26 million pages of literature. The BHL was created in response to the "taxonomic impediment", which describes gaps in taxonomic knowledge. It works with natural history institutions around the world to digitize their collections. The BHL provides open access to this literature and develops tools to enhance access, such as name finding and citation services.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
EOL is an online encyclopedia of life that provides information on over 1.9 million known species. It aims to be a comprehensive resource built collaboratively by scientific experts and the public. Typical species pages provide details on taxonomy, description, ecology, and multimedia. Contributors include research institutions, scientists, educators, and citizens who can submit photos, videos and other content. EOL also partners with projects like the Census of Marine Life to provide occurrence data and maps. It offers tools for education including podcasts, an interactive field guide, and collaborative authoring environments for creating species pages.
The document summarizes three biodiversity resources: the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and opportunities for involvement through the EOL. The EOL is a website with 1.8 million species pages that allows the public to submit photos and data. The BHL scans biodiversity literature and makes it searchable online and linked through EOL. The document describes how individuals can get involved by sharing photos, becoming a curator, or partnering to provide content. Funding opportunities are provided through the Biodiversity Synthesis Center and EOL Fellows Program.
This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project and its role in supporting other biodiversity initiatives like the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The BHL aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It has already digitized over 4 million pages and works closely with groups like EOL to integrate taxonomic data. The document outlines the BHL's goals, partnerships, digitization process, and how it brings together distributed information on species through its use of taxonomic intelligence.
The document discusses how the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides open access to over 40 million pages of biodiversity literature. It mobilizes this content by identifying over 100 million scientific names embedded in digitized texts. Tools and services described include Biostor for extracting and visualizing data from BHL, Synonyms for visualizing changes in scientific names over time, and links from BHL to the Encyclopedia of Life and Flickr to share images. The BHL makes bibliographic metadata and images available through various formats and APIs to maximize access and reuse of its biodiversity literature.
The document discusses the completion of Linnaeus' task of cataloguing Earth's biodiversity through the development of ZooBank, an online registry for the nomenclature of animal names. It outlines how previous works like Systema Naturae, Zoological Record, and Index Animalium helped in this effort. ZooBank would provide globally unique identifiers for names, publications, authors, and type specimens to facilitate accessibility, completeness, accuracy, and quality control of nomenclatural data online. This would support the goals of transparent taxonomy and serve various stakeholders.
Biodiversity Heritage Library : Development and PartnerhipsNancy Gwinn
Biodiversity Heritage Library. Development and Partnerships. Nancy E. Gwinn. Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Group, National Science Foundation, March 24, 2008, Washington, D.C.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going GlobalMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Missouri Botanical Garden Staff Meeting. August 19, 2009. Saint Louis, MO.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a collaborative online resource that provides information on 1.9 million named species. It aggregates data from various content partners into consistent taxon pages with tabs for media, descriptions, and more. EOL offers educational resources like podcasts, Google Earth tours, and tools for creating collections, field guides, games, and observations to engage students in biodiversity. Teachers can access these free multimedia resources at EOL.org to enhance science lessons.
This document describes a project to create a universal biological indexer and organizer. It aims to address the challenges of indexing and searching biological data using taxonomic names, which are complex due to issues like synonyms, homonyms, and changing classifications. The project involves creating databases called NameBank and ClassificationBank that index all taxonomic names and concepts. These will serve as the foundation for tools and applications to help integrate names into literature retrieval, search, and browsing of biological data from various sources. The end goal is a comprehensive portal and services that enable connections within the biological research community.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Projectchoare
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) aims to digitize the core published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It works with the global taxonomic community and rights holders. The BHL has begun scanning over 400,000 volumes from several founding institution partners. Its goals are to provide global access to biodiversity literature, which will change how taxonomists work, and to support projects like the Encyclopedia of Life. The BHL costs an estimated $20-30 million to complete and has raised around $12.5 million so far.
Kicking off a new NSF-supported project at University of Maryland called Biotracker. This show introduces Encyclopedia of Life to the students who will be creating games, a community, and computer vision tools for mobile phone-based identification of species.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned. June 30, 2008. Anaheim, CA.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning LocallyMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning Locally. Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating on the Development and Use of Digitized Collections. American Library Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 28 June 2014.
This document provides a list of 101 free online journal and research databases for academics organized by discipline. It defines the differences between open access content, which can be freely accessed and reused, and free access content, which can be accessed online for free but not necessarily reused. The databases are highlighted in green if they exclusively contain free or open access content. The list is organized with the databases described briefly including name, description and content area. Databases cover a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, science, mathematics and multidisciplinary. The goal is to help students, academics and researchers access information without expensive subscriptions.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project to digitize the published literature of biodiversity. It aims to provide open access to over 5.4 million books and publications dating back to 1469. The BHL involves many museum, botanical garden, and research institution libraries collaborating to scan materials. It uses taxonomic intelligence to link names in the literature to databases. The long-term goal is a sustainable platform to make biodiversity literature freely available online.
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This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a free account on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. It explains that users can sign up using an existing email or social media account, or by creating a new username and password. It also notes that educators can create a shared login for their class. Once an account is created, the user must verify their email address by clicking a link in a confirmation email before being able to log in to EOL and access additional features like creating collections or leaving comments.
This document outlines an agenda for a short course introducing participants to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) resources and how they can be used for exploring local biodiversity. The course will include demonstrations of the EOL and OBIS websites and tools, as well as hands-on activities using the resources. Participants will learn how to utilize collections, videos, podcasts and other features to support outdoor biology lessons and investigations. The goal is to help educators gain a better understanding of their local environment and stimulate curiosity about the natural world through use of these open access biodiversity databases.
The document provides instructions for sharing videos on YouTube and Vimeo with the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project. It outlines the steps to upload videos to each platform, add required taxonomic tags and creative commons licenses, and notifying EOL so videos can be harvested and displayed on relevant taxon pages. Videos must be properly licensed and tagged with taxon information in order to be included. The document guides users through each step to successfully contribute content.
The document provides instructions for creating a customized memory game using the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. It outlines the steps to create a free EOL account, build an EOL collection of species pages or images, make a free account on the EOL Education Apps page, and then select that collection to generate a memory game where users try to match species pictures. It also explains how to add notes to collection items that will display when matches are made during the game.
Anyone can contribute text articles to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) after review by EOL curators. To add an article, login to EOL and click the "add an article" button on a taxon page. You will be prompted to choose a topic and enter text, formatting, references, language, license, authors, and other applicable information before clicking "Add Article". Articles can later be edited by finding them on the taxon page and clicking "Edit this article".
This document provides instructions for using the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and iNaturalist to make and share observations of species. It outlines how to view species in EOL collections, add observations through iNaturalist by providing location and photo details, and see added observations on both iNaturalist and EOL maps and pages. An iPhone app is also available to add observations from mobile devices.
This document provides instructions for creating and managing communities on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. It explains that communities allow users to collaboratively organize and share collections of species information. Users can create communities, add collections, invite members, grant manager roles, and communicate via a community newsfeed. Communities and collections are accessible via a user's EOL profile page.
The document provides instructions for creating collections on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. It explains that collections allow users to group species pages, images, videos and other content to create field guides, games, checklists and more. It outlines the steps to search for content, add items to a new or existing collection, add notes and share collections with other users or through communities. It also describes how collections can be used to create field guides, memory games, bingo games or shared projects on the iNaturalist website.
Contributing images to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) can be done by uploading images and videos to a Flickr account and sharing them with the EOL Images Flickr group. Images should be tagged with taxonomic information and assigned a Creative Commons license to be harvested by EOL. Once harvested, images will appear on EOL pages as unreviewed content until curated. Detailed steps are provided on adding tags, licenses, sharing content, and having images displayed on EOL.
This presentation was provided by Racquel Jemison, Ph.D., Christina MacLaughlin, Ph.D., and Paulomi Majumder. Ph.D., all of the American Chemical Society, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Beyond Degrees - Empowering the Workforce in the Context of Skills-First.pptxEduSkills OECD
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2. What is the Encyclopedia of Life?
The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative effort
among scientist and the general public to bring
information together about all 1.9 million named
and known species, in a common format, freely
available on the internet.
3. Content Partners
EOL serves species information from authoritative content partners, individuals scientists,
citizen scientists, students and the general public. Below are some of our content partners:
..and many more
5. Taxon Pages
Information for each species on EOL is aggregated from hundreds of
content partners into a common template called a Taxon Page.
Each tab on the taxon page contains different content.
Overview Tab
6. Detailed Information
Taxon pages contain detailed information about the taxa is available in the Detail Tab.
Details Tab
7. Media
Images, video + sounds can be found in the Media Tab.
Media Tab
8. Maps
Occurrence data provided by GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) and other
maps can be found in the Map Tab.
9. Names + Classifications
The EOL collection can be browsed based on a number of different taxonomic
hierarchies which are featured in the Overview and Names Tabs of every EOL taxon
page. All taxonomic hierarchies featured on EOL are expert-vetted.
10. Community
Look in the Community Tab to interact with others interested in the same taxa by
viewing or creating a virtual collection or community.
11. Resources
Links to other resources e.g. Identification resources can be found
in the Resources Tab.
12. Literature
In the Literature Tab you will find references provided by content partners and links to
literature from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
13. Biodiversity Heritage Library Literature
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical
libraries that cooperate to digitize and make freely accessible the legacy literature of
biodiversity held in their collections. Find BHL literature under the Literature Tab on each
taxon page.
14. Searching on EOL
You can search for species by common name or scientific name. You can also search for
EOL Collections and Communities. You can filter your search results by content type.
Filter your
search by
content type
15. Trusted and Unreviewed Content
EOL serves both trusted and unreviewed content. You can filter your results to show
only one type of content.
16. EOL Content Priorities
You may come across a taxon page with no information. This is because we do not have a content
provider for this taxa yet. EOL has determined that many of these pages are of high priority and is
reaching out to faculty that teach higher level courses, about the opportunity of having undergraduate
and graduate students research and synthesize information about species on EOL’s high priority taxa list
and then summarize this information in an overview or taxon page suitable for the general public.
17. Support
EOL is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the following institutions:
Atlas of Living Australia
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Chinese Academy of Sciences
La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
Field Museum of Natural History
Harvard University
El Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)
Marine Biological Laboratory
Missouri Botanical Garden
NCB Naturalis - the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity
New Library of Alexandria
Smithsonian Institution
South African National Biodiversity Institution (SANBI)
18. More Information
Encyclopedia of Life
www.eol.org
EOL Learning + Education
http://education.eol.org/
Questions?
Email: education(at)eol.org