Eco-Informatics : Tools and Techniques

Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Ecoinformatics: An introductory overview of ecological data and information. 2. Computational biology, ecological economics and ecoinformatics: Select research oriented case studies. 3. Ecological analysis, synthesis and the Montreal process: a brief study. 4. Ecoinformatics geostrategies and geospatial information imaging systems: select case study. 5. Ecological knowledge system and vegetation classification database: an in-depth analysis. 6. Ecosystem visualization and taxonomic hierarchies: select case studies and research. 7. Case study: IUCN and use of ecoinformatics science and technology. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

“Ecoinformatics, or ecological informatics, is the science of information (informatics) in ecology and environmental science. It integrates environmental and information sciences to define entities and natural processes with language common to both humans and computers. However, this is a rapidly developing area in ecology and there are alternative perspectives on what constitutes ecoinformatics.

Ecoinformatics characterize the semantics of natural system knowledge. For this reason, much of today’s ecoinformatics research relates to the branch of computer science known as knowledge representation, and active ecoinformatics projects are developing links to activities such as the Semantic Web.”