The LifewatchGreece project builds the national hub of the European Research Infrastructure LifeW... more The LifewatchGreece project builds the national hub of the European Research Infrastructure LifeWatch (ESFRI) on biodiversity data and data observatories. A suite of electronic services (e-Services) and virtual labs (vLabs) are under development to facilitate both the data providers and the users. The R-vLab is a powerful application hosted in the LifewatchGreece portal that provides several tools which can be used for ecological analysis and assessment of Good Environmental Status (GES). The R-vLab runs parallelized/optimized routines of the VEGAN library of the R package (on a 100 CPU cluster), through a user-friendly interface, while new features are added constantly. In addition to the traditional univariate and multivariate analysis routines, the recently developed “Biological Indices Calculation Tool (BICT)” provides routines for the most popular diversity indices as well as for environmental quality indicators (e.g. BQI, BQI-Family, BENTIX, AMBI). To test the performance of t...
This paper reports on the occurrence of Syrphidae in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), based... more This paper reports on the occurrence of Syrphidae in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), based on 5,600 specimen records incorporated in the biodiversity database of the National Museums of Kenya. In total, 219 species are reported from the region with 171 in Kenya, 123 in Tanzania and 127 in Uganda. The similarities between the faunal composition of the three countries, as well as the endemicity are discussed. Based on GIS mapping of the database records, distribution patterns and zoogeographical relationships are discussed.
Abstract Three different transect methods were compared at two different sites in Kenya, on their... more Abstract Three different transect methods were compared at two different sites in Kenya, on their efficiency to estimate hard coral cover, genus richness and Shannon diversity index. For a modified line transect method (LTM), the line intercept method (LIT) and a linear ...
The LifewatchGreece project builds the national hub of the European Research Infrastructure LifeW... more The LifewatchGreece project builds the national hub of the European Research Infrastructure LifeWatch (ESFRI) on biodiversity data and data observatories. A suite of electronic services (e-Services) and virtual labs (vLabs) are under development to facilitate both the data providers and the users. The R-vLab is a powerful application hosted in the LifewatchGreece portal that provides several tools which can be used for ecological analysis and assessment of Good Environmental Status (GES). The R-vLab runs parallelized/optimized routines of the VEGAN library of the R package (on a 100 CPU cluster), through a user-friendly interface, while new features are added constantly. In addition to the traditional univariate and multivariate analysis routines, the recently developed “Biological Indices Calculation Tool (BICT)” provides routines for the most popular diversity indices as well as for environmental quality indicators (e.g. BQI, BQI-Family, BENTIX, AMBI). To test the performance of t...
This paper reports on the occurrence of Syrphidae in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), based... more This paper reports on the occurrence of Syrphidae in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda), based on 5,600 specimen records incorporated in the biodiversity database of the National Museums of Kenya. In total, 219 species are reported from the region with 171 in Kenya, 123 in Tanzania and 127 in Uganda. The similarities between the faunal composition of the three countries, as well as the endemicity are discussed. Based on GIS mapping of the database records, distribution patterns and zoogeographical relationships are discussed.
Abstract Three different transect methods were compared at two different sites in Kenya, on their... more Abstract Three different transect methods were compared at two different sites in Kenya, on their efficiency to estimate hard coral cover, genus richness and Shannon diversity index. For a modified line transect method (LTM), the line intercept method (LIT) and a linear ...
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