Sentence examples for biodiversity database from inspiring English sources

Dr. Costello and his colleagues first picked up on this inaccuracy while compiling a global biodiversity database.

The study used a relatively new global biodiversity database called Predicts (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems), which contains field data from hundreds of scientists documenting how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts.

A subsequent projection of the value of stakeholder-led land management was calculated and compared to an existing reference for the value of urban green space from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity database.

In support of the development of a new comprehensive ant biodiversity database containing over 1.7 million records, we developed a new client server web-mapping application, antmaps.org, to visualize and interact with the geographic distributions of all 15,050 ant species and aggregate patterns of their diversity and biogeography.

Review of the available literature on CMB of IO countries thus showed that Among all IO countries, only India has a relatively more comprehensive marine biodiversity database.

In the OBIS database, for instance, which is the largest marine biodiversity database in the world with nearly 25 million species distribution records, from over 100,000 different species and 750 datasets (by April 2010), these groups combined account for 69.7% of all species (9.0% cnidarians, 11.4% mollusks, 23.0% crustaceans, 5.3% echinoderms, and 21.1% fishes).

What sets the Map of Life apart from other global biodiversity databases is that it pulls together all sorts of different data sources and classifies each by its limitations and advantages, allowing the various data sets to complement, critique and inform one another.

The team examined biodiversity databases for three regions of varying scales: the United States except Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest's Columbia Plateau, and coastal sage scrub in southern California.

Several aspects of the geographical coverage of tree distribution share similarities with the geographical coverage of plants in big-data biodiversity databases.

Each database tracked the presence or absence of organisms either listed as threatened or endangered by state or federal authorities, perilously close to being listed, or species of concern to The Nature Conservancy, which maintains biodiversity databases nationwide.

However, a larger mobilization (e.g. incorporation into digital format) of forest inventory data into biodiversity databases is lacking, probably due to difference in the tradition of specimen collections versus assessment of wood resources.