Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorPeterson, A. Townsend
dc.contributor.authorKnapp, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorGuralnick, Robert P.
dc.contributor.authorSoberón, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorHolder, Mark T.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-19T17:47:41Z
dc.date.available2014-05-19T17:47:41Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationPeterson, T., Knapp, S., Guralnick, R., Soberón, J., Holder, M. 2010. The Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics. Systematics and Biodiversity 8(2): 159-168.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/13674
dc.descriptionThis is the publisher's version, which the author has permission to share. The original version may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772001003739369
dc.description.abstractScience is a sequence of generating new ideas, detailed explorations, incorporation of the results into a toolbox for understanding data, and turning them into useful knowledge. One recent development has been large-scale, computer-aided management of biodiversity information. This emerging field of biodiversity informatics has been growing quickly, but without overarching scientific questions to guide its development; the result has been developments that have no connection to genuine insight and forward progress. We outline what biodiversity informatics should be, a link between diverse dimensions of organismal biology – genomics, phylogenetics, taxonomy, distributional biology, ecology, interactions, and conservation status – and describe the science progress that would result. These steps will enable a transition from ‘gee-whiz’ to fundamental science infrastructure.
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.subjectAnalysis
dc.subjectBiodiversity data capture
dc.subjectData integration
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectEvolutionary biology
dc.subjectInformatics
dc.subjectInterpretation
dc.subjectPhylogeny
dc.titleThe Big Questions For Biodiversity Informatics
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorSoberón, Jorge
kusw.kudepartmentEcology and Evolutionary Biology
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14772001003739369
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record