Renato De Giovanni

TL;DR: This paper describes the evolution and development of Darwin Core, a data standard for publishing and integrating biodiversity information, focusing on the categories of terms that define the standard, differences between simple and relational DarwinCore, how the standard has been implemented and the community processes that are essential for maintenance and growth of the standard.

TL;DR: A generic approach for building a single computing framework capable of handling different data formats and multiple algorithms that can be used in potential distribution modelling is described and an example use case illustrates potential distribution maps generated by the framework.

TL;DR: The experimental results highlight the good performance of random trees classifiers, indicating this particular technique as a promising candidate for modelling species' potential distribution.

TL;DR: Open access to research data and open-source tools are leading to a new era of web services and computational frameworks for spatial biodiversity analysis, bringing new opportunities and dimensions to novel approaches in ecological analysis, predictive modeling, and synthesis and visualization of biodiversity information.

TL;DR: The 2011 workshop " Species distribution models: applications, challenges and perspectives " as mentioned in this paper aimed to review the state-of-the-art in species distribution modelling (SDM) in the neotropical realm.