William K. Michener|Matthew B. Jones
Ecoinformatics: supporting ecology as a data-intensive science
University of New Mexico|National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis|University of California, Santa Barbara
ecology evolving rapidly increasingly changing open accountable interdisciplinary collaborative dataintensive science discovering integrating analyzing massive amounts heterogeneous data central ecology researchers address complex questions scales gene biosphere ecoinformatics offers tools approaches managing ecological data transforming data information knowledge review stateoftheart recent advances ecoinformatics benefit ecologists environmental scientists tackle increasingly challenging questions require voluminous amounts data across disciplines scales space time also highlight challenges opportunities remain