CEES Projects: Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Informatics
- EntangledBank: Tools for Ecological and Biodiversity Data Mangement. We are working closely with academic partners at NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, London to identify common themes and problems in the management of ecological data, and are creating tools that allow ecologists to collate, manage, integrate and disseminate their data in an efficient, powerful but easy to use way. (Rich Williams and Robin Freeman)
- Building a Global Database of Forest Inventory Data. Forests harbour around 60% of the world’s biodiversity and around half of its terrestrial carbon, so there is an urgent need to predict how forests will respond to continuing anthropogenic perturbations including increased atmospheric CO2, logging and land-use change. To aid in the development and parameterization of models to predict these responses, this collaboration is collating millions of pre-existing field measurements of trees from national forest inventories, into a coherent, user-friendly database. (Drew Purves)
- Cambridge University Herbarium Digitisation. Digitization and online publication of the most scientifically and historically significant parts of the Cambridge University Herbarium’s collection, including the plants specimens collected by Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle. (Rich Williams)
