OpenBio

EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity

EU-Brazil

Day 1 09:30 - 10:30 11:00 - 12:30 14:00 - 15:30 16:00 - 17:30 17:30 - 18:30 Day 2 09:00 - 10:30 11:00 - 12:30 14:00 - 15:00 15:00 - 16:00

19th September 2012 S&T Innovation in Europe & Brazil - Achievements and prospects Science & Technology Challenges & User Communities Science & Technology for Biodiversity EU-BrazilOpenBio: services and use cases EU-BrazilOpenBio & the Brazilian Virtual Herbarium demonstrations 20th September 2012 Looking to the future Enabling e-Infrastructures for multi-disciplinary collaboration Advancing biodiversity e-science through global collaboration Concluding roundtable on furthering e-Science to support the EU-Brazil policy dialogue

One major problem is how to integrate between regional taxonomies created locally for regional floras and global taxonomies linked to global monographs and global species databases.

A. Hardisty, Cardiff University, EUBrazilOpenBio partner and Project Leader, BioVeL

And what if an online tool could help you cross-map a species in both Brazilian and European checklists?

Advancing Biodiversity e-science Innovation through Global Cooperation

EUBrazilOpenBio and The Virtual Herbarium of Plants and Fungi of Brazil Joint workshop 19 & 20 September 2012
Park Hotel, Rua dos Navegantes, 9, Recife, Brazil

OpenBio
EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity

EU-Brazil

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EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity

EU-Brazil

Niche Models Efficient Generation

This case study is built upon the ongoing effort of the Brazilian Virtual Herbarium of Flora and Fungi to assess the usability of specimen records to generate ecological niche models. The Virtual Herbarium will interact with the List of Species of the Brazilian Flora to get the species that occur in Brazil and their currently accepted names. Different modelling strategies will be used and different algorithms to calculate occurrence points. Conditions including these highlighted below will require special computational resources: At least 5 algorithms will be used to produce niche models. These 5 algorithms are likely double in the future years. Currently there are 4 basic climatic scenarios of carbon-dioxide emission and several global circulation models that can be used to predict climate changes in different time. There are ~40000 plant species that are native to Brazil, which means that hopefully there is sufficient data so that models can be generated for most of them.

Regional and global taxonomy integration

The EUBrazilOpenBio use case on integration between regional and global taxonomies is a pilot study to cross-map and analyse all or part of the regional plant catalogue of the Brazilian Hub served by CRIA, the Reference Center on Environmental Information (up to 10,000 species of flowering plants), with the global index of plants within the Catalogue of Life (CoL) and provided by Species 2000 (with up to 150,000 species of plants). Initially two taxonomic checklists will be selected to be compared. Then a more specific workflow will be suited for piping information about taxa selected from a cross-map to the appropriate database provider. This will support users to make smarter use of the information they have. Support of this use case provides a component in the 4D4Life Global Multi-Hub Network This pilot study makes use of two tools under development in the i4Life project: the CoL Cross-mapping Tool and the CoL Piping Tool.

Therefore, the main objective of this use case is to propose efficient ways of generating a large number of ecological niche models through a Web Service interface so that they can be retrieved and used by different applications. Tests will be performed with data from at least 10 different families of plant species that occur in Brazil based on the needs of the modelling strategy being planned for the Brazilian Virtual Herbarium.

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