Newsletter #5 - EDIT | - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

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a higher (group) level, such as a simple
sum of the occurrences per region;
More intricate processing is possible, such
predictive distribution modeling and
reconstruction of collecting pathways, or
gap analysis for assessment of the spatial
completeness of the biodiversity data.
Example of services to scientists
Reconstruction of the Lang &
Chapin expedition
Same reconstruction, with Blue
Marble NASA background
«Spatial analysis» with the Madrid tool for
asserting spatial completeness of data
Next steps
The close collaboration with WP7 (Applying
taxonomy to conservation) will continue to
display the results of the All Taxa Biodiversity
Inventories (ATBI). The collected information will
be used as test bed and to produce guidelines on
how to optimally collected and serve information
to cybertaxonomy platform.
An e-conference is planed by end of the year
with the subject «Geospatial needs for taxonomic
for the geospatial platform and the displaying
of geographic information. The next steps will
be to add services for taxonomist to the core
components of the Geospatial infrastructure.
DuringthefirstyearoftheEDITproject,it research».Wehavenowageneralframework
interest for taxonomists in their daily work like:
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Distribution modeling based on
data when no absence
data (typically the case of Museum
specimens):
Species distribution modeling using sampling
locations and associated environmental
informationiscommonlyusedinthefieldof
ecology. There is a growing interest of using
museum and botanical garden specimens
for this type of modeling. One of the issues
specimens have often been collected in a
qualitative way rather than in a quantitative
way, as it is the case in ecological studies. This
results in the fact that you have often presence
information but not absence information,
which is needed in most modeling algorithms.
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