Biodiversity analysis in the digital era

This paper explores what the virtual biodiversity e-infrastructure will look like as it takes advantage of advances in ‘Big Data’ biodiversity informatics and e-research infrastructure, which allow integration of various taxon-level data types (genome, morphology, distribution and species interactio...

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Published inPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences Vol. 371; no. 1702; p. 20150337
Main Authors La Salle, John, Williams, Kristen J., Moritz, Craig
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England The Royal Society 05.09.2016
Subjects
Australia
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Informatics
Biogeography
Classification - methods
Computational Biology
DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
E-Research Infrastructure
Environment
Evolution
Opinion Piece
Phylogeny
e-research infrastructure
biodiversity informatics
environment
evolution
biogeography
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Summary:This paper explores what the virtual biodiversity e-infrastructure will look like as it takes advantage of advances in ‘Big Data’ biodiversity informatics and e-research infrastructure, which allow integration of various taxon-level data types (genome, morphology, distribution and species interactions) within a phylogenetic and environmental framework. By overcoming the data scaling problem in ecology, this integrative framework will provide richer information and fast learning to enable a deeper understanding of biodiversity evolution and dynamics in a rapidly changing world. The Atlas of Living Australia is used as one example of the advantages of progressing towards this future. Living in this future will require the adoption of new ways of integrating scientific knowledge into societal decision making. This article is part of the themed issue ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’.
Bibliography:Theme issue ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’ compiled and edited by Paul D. N. Hebert, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Peter M. Hollingsworth
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One contribution of 16 to a theme issue ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’.
ISSN:0962-8436
1471-2970
DOI:10.1098/rstb.2015.0337