Including ecology in biodiversity data management systems requires classifications of
habitat terms that provide standard definitions and indicate their relationships. In addition to …

In the context of the European Union's Soil Thematic Strategy, policy makers require easy
access to soil data and information of various types and scales to assess the state of soils at …

With the arrival of GPS, satellite remote sensing, and personal computers, the last two
decades have witnessed rapid advances in the field of spatially-explicit marine ecological …

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the various aspects of SDSS evolution,
components, architecture, and implementation. Integrating research from a variety of …

Abstract Machine processable data that narrate digital/non-digital resources are termed as
metadata. Different metadata standards exist for describing various types of digital objects …

Environmental modelling often requires a long iterative process of sourcing, reformatting,
analyzing, and introducing various types of data into the model. Much of the data to be …

Much attention has been given to the challenges of handling massive data volumes in
modern data-intensive science. This paper examines an equally daunting challenge–the …

The science needed to understand highly migratory marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle
species is not adequately addressed by individual data collections developed for a single …

Habitat use of seven different species of cetaceans inhabiting the Pelagos Sanctuary was
studied using 18-year summer shipboard surveys data, in an area of approximately 25,000 …

Geographical information science (GIS) has played an increasing role in biogeography over
the last decade. In this period, for example, the number of papers using GIS published in the …