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Diverse or uniform? Intercomparison of two major German project databases for interdisciplinary collaborative functional biodiversity research
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Overall features for project databases of collaborative research projects must be supplemented by sophisticated data description, storage, and analysis structures to serve the requirements of integrative functional biodiversity research.About:
This article is published in Ecological Informatics.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Data curation & Metadata management.read more
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Towards an integrated biodiversity and ecological research data management and archiving platform: the German federation for the curation of biological data (GFBio)
Michael Diepenbroek,Frank Oliver Glöckner,Peter Grobe,Anton Güntsch,Robert Huber,Birgitta König-Ries,Ivaylo Kostadinov,Jens Nieschulze,Bernhard Seeger,Robert Tolksdorf,Dagmar Triebel +10 more
TL;DR: Challenges to biodiversity data management along the data life cycle are described and the solution that is currently being developed within the GFBio project is sketched, a collaborative effort of nineteen German research institutions ranging from museums and archives to biodiversity researchers and computer scientists.
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Habitats as Complex Odour Environments: How Does Plant Diversity Affect Herbivore and Parasitoid Orientation?
Nicole Wäschke,Kristin Hardge,Christine Hancock,Monika Hilker,Elisabeth Obermaier,Torsten Meiners +5 more
TL;DR: Testing in laboratory experiments the hypothesis that non-host plants affect the host location ability of herbivores and parasitoids revealed that both the herbivorous weevil and its larval parasitoid can locate their host plant and host via olfactory cues even in the presence of non- host odour.
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Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research
Karin Nadrowski,Sophia Ratcliffe,Gerhard Bönisch,Helge Bruelheide,Jens Kattge,Xiaojuan Liu,Lutz Maicher,Xiangcheng Mi,Michael Prilop,Daniel Seifarth,Karl Welter,Sven Windisch,Christian Wirth +12 more
TL;DR: BEFdata is a new, open source web platform for the upload, validation and storage of data from a formatted Excel workbook that supports the compilation of coherent data sets at the level of the primary data, allowing researchers to explicitly model correlation structures across data sets for synthesis.
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Research data management services for a multidisciplinary, collaborative research project: Design and implementation of the TR32DB project database
Constanze Curdt,Dirk Hoffmeister +1 more
TL;DR: The design and implementation of a RDM system for an interdisciplinary, collaborative, long-term research project with focus on Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere data is presented.
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Data platforms in integrative biodiversity research
TL;DR: A special issue in the journal Ecological Informatics that focuses on data systems for integrative biodiversity research is planned for winter 2011 publication as mentioned in this paper, which encourages submission of papers reflecting a broad range of topics related to the design and implementation of data systems that can enable new and more highly integrative and synthetic biodiversity research.
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Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge
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Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories
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