Progress in Biodiversity Informatics

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1003.2010.429

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Abstract:

Biodiversity Informatics is a young and rapidly growing field that brings information science and technologies to bear on the data and information generated by the study of biodiversity and related subjects. Recent years, biodiversity informatics community has made an extraordinary effort to digitize primary biodiversity data, and develop modelling tools, data integration, and county/regional/global biodiversity networks. In doing so, the community is creating an unprecedented global sharing of information and data produced by biodiversity science, and encouraging people to consider, survey and monitor natural biodiversity. Due to success of several international biodiversity informatics projects, such as Species 2000, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Barcoding of Life and Encyclopedia of Life, digitized information on species inventories, herbarium specimens, multimedia and literature is available through internet. These projects not only make great contributions to sharing digitized biodiversity data, but also in prompting the implementation of important biodiversity information standards, such as Darwin Core, and in the establishment of regional and national biodiversity networks. These efforts will facilitate the future establishment of a strong information infrastructure for data sharing and exchange at a global scale. Besides focusing on browsing and searching digitized data, scientists should also work on building data mining and modeling, such as MAXENT for Ecological Niche Modelling and LifeDesk for taxonomist’s knowledge management. At the same time, the idea of citizen sciences gains popularity showing us the benefit of the public working closely with the scientific community in completing internet-based biodiversity informatics activities. Therefore, biodiversity informatics has broad prospects, and is helping to build strong facilities that will aid in implementing the goals set by Global Plant Conservation Strategy and related international treaties, resolving biodiversity crises and the management of biodiversity resources in global climate change scenarios.

Key words: biodiversity, informatics, database, species, specimen, GIS

Lisong Wang, Bin Chen, Liqiang Ji, Keping Ma. Progress in Biodiversity Informatics[J]. Biodiv Sci, 2010, 18(5): 429-443.

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信息系统名称/简称 System name (Abbreviation)	网址 Web address	核心数据 Core data
Catalogue of Life-Species 2000(COL-Species2000)	http://www.sp2000.org/	物种编目 Checklist
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)	http://www.gbif.org/	标本 Herbarium specimen
Tree of Life (TOL)	http://tolweb.org/tree/	系统发育 Phylogenetic data
Barcoding of Life (CBOL)	http://www.barcodinglife.org/	DNA条形码 DNA barcode
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)	http://www.eol.org/	综合物种信息 Integrated species information
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)	http://www.ala.org.au/	综合物种信息 Integrated species information
International Plant Name Index (IPNI)	http://www.ipni.org/	植物名称 Plant name
USDA PLANTS	http://plants.usda.gov/	综合性植物物种信息 Integrated species information
UBio	http://www.ubio.org/	生物名称 Scientific name
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)	http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/	生物多样性历史文献 Biodiversity literature
ARKive	http://www.arkive.org/	珍稀濒危物种图像和多媒体信息 Multimedia of endangered species
MorphoBank	http://www.morphobank.org/	形态性状的系统发育分析 Morphological phylogeny

信息系统名称/简称 System name (Abbreviation)	网址 Web address	核心数据 Core data
Catalogue of Life-Species 2000(COL-Species2000)	http://www.sp2000.org/	物种编目 Checklist
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)	http://www.gbif.org/	标本 Herbarium specimen
Tree of Life (TOL)	http://tolweb.org/tree/	系统发育 Phylogenetic data
Barcoding of Life (CBOL)	http://www.barcodinglife.org/	DNA条形码 DNA barcode
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)	http://www.eol.org/	综合物种信息 Integrated species information
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)	http://www.ala.org.au/	综合物种信息 Integrated species information
International Plant Name Index (IPNI)	http://www.ipni.org/	植物名称 Plant name
USDA PLANTS	http://plants.usda.gov/	综合性植物物种信息 Integrated species information
UBio	http://www.ubio.org/	生物名称 Scientific name
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)	http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/	生物多样性历史文献 Biodiversity literature
ARKive	http://www.arkive.org/	珍稀濒危物种图像和多媒体信息 Multimedia of endangered species
MorphoBank	http://www.morphobank.org/	形态性状的系统发育分析 Morphological phylogeny

工具名称 Name of the tool	网址 Web address
ETI Linneaeus II/III	http://www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus/download.php
Lucid	http://www.lucidcentral.com/
XPer2	http://lis-upmc.snv.jussieu.fr/lis/?q=en/resources/softwares/xper2
DeltaAccess	http://www.diversityworkbench.net/OldModels/Descriptions/index.html
DELTA	http://delta-intkey.com/
EFG (Electronic field guide)	http://efg.cs.umb.edu/efg/
navikey	http://www.navikey.net/
SLIKS	http://www.stingersplace.com/SLIKS/
X:ID	http://names.ubio.org/xid/
eFlora/Actkey	http://www.efloras.org/index.aspx

工具名称 Name of the tool	网址 Web address
ETI Linneaeus II/III	http://www.eti.uva.nl/products/linnaeus/download.php
Lucid	http://www.lucidcentral.com/
XPer2	http://lis-upmc.snv.jussieu.fr/lis/?q=en/resources/softwares/xper2
DeltaAccess	http://www.diversityworkbench.net/OldModels/Descriptions/index.html
DELTA	http://delta-intkey.com/
EFG (Electronic field guide)	http://efg.cs.umb.edu/efg/
navikey	http://www.navikey.net/
SLIKS	http://www.stingersplace.com/SLIKS/
X:ID	http://names.ubio.org/xid/
eFlora/Actkey	http://www.efloras.org/index.aspx

软件名字 Name of the tools	网址 Web address
Maxent	http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/lzhang10/maxent.html
GARP	http://www.nhm.ku.edu/desktopgarp/
Biomapper	http://www2.unil.ch/biomapper/
BIOCLIM	http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/software/anuclim/doc/bioclim.html
openModeller	http://openmodeller.sourceforge.net/
Lifemapper	http://www.lifemapper.org/
AquaMaps	http://www.aquamaps.org/
DIVA-GIS	http://www.diva-gis.org/