ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native ... more ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native and naturalised families of the Flora Malesiana region. The main part of the key consists of a small set of characters pertaining to vegetative, floral and fruit morphology and ecology. These have been chosen as relatively easy to assess from a flowering and/or fruiting specimen, and are readily interpreted with help of the character states notes and illustrations.
ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native ... more ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native and naturalised families of the Flora Malesiana region. The main part of the key consists of a small set of characters pertaining to vegetative, floral and fruit morphology and ecology. These have been chosen as relatively easy to assess from a flowering and/or fruiting specimen, and are readily interpreted with help of the character states notes and illustrations.
Recent years have seen a surge in projects that produce large volumes of structured, machine-read... more Recent years have seen a surge in projects that produce large volumes of structured, machine-readable biodiversity data. To make these data amenable to processing by generic, open source "data enrichment" workflows, they are increasingly being represented in a variety of standards-compliant interchange formats. Here, we report on an initiative in which software developers and taxonomists came together to address the challenges and highlight the opportunities in the enrichment of such biodiversity data by engaging in intensive, collaborative software development: The Biodiversity Data Enrichment Hackathon. The hackathon brought together 37 participants (including developers and taxonomists, i.e. scientific professionals that gather, identify, name and classify species) from 10 countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The participants brought expertise in processing structured data, text mining, developm...
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological character... more Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, influence ecosystem processes and services and provide a link from species richness to ecosystem functional diversity. Trait data thus represent the raw material for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography. Here we present the global database ...
The work investigates pattern recognition methods to detect venation patterns on leaves. An autom... more The work investigates pattern recognition methods to detect venation patterns on leaves. An automated technique that involves scale space analysis and an automated technique that includes a combination of edge detectors are compared with a manual technique. A small data set of five images is considered in this initial exploratory work and the results are qualitatively evaluated. The results show
ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native ... more ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native and naturalised families of the Flora Malesiana region. The main part of the key consists of a small set of characters pertaining to vegetative, floral and fruit morphology and ecology. These have been chosen as relatively easy to assess from a flowering and/or fruiting specimen, and are readily interpreted with help of the character states notes and illustrations.
ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native ... more ABSTRACT: The Interactive Key to Malesian Seed Plants is an identification system for all native and naturalised families of the Flora Malesiana region. The main part of the key consists of a small set of characters pertaining to vegetative, floral and fruit morphology and ecology. These have been chosen as relatively easy to assess from a flowering and/or fruiting specimen, and are readily interpreted with help of the character states notes and illustrations.
Recent years have seen a surge in projects that produce large volumes of structured, machine-read... more Recent years have seen a surge in projects that produce large volumes of structured, machine-readable biodiversity data. To make these data amenable to processing by generic, open source "data enrichment" workflows, they are increasingly being represented in a variety of standards-compliant interchange formats. Here, we report on an initiative in which software developers and taxonomists came together to address the challenges and highlight the opportunities in the enrichment of such biodiversity data by engaging in intensive, collaborative software development: The Biodiversity Data Enrichment Hackathon. The hackathon brought together 37 participants (including developers and taxonomists, i.e. scientific professionals that gather, identify, name and classify species) from 10 countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The participants brought expertise in processing structured data, text mining, developm...
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological character... more Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels, influence ecosystem processes and services and provide a link from species richness to ecosystem functional diversity. Trait data thus represent the raw material for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography. Here we present the global database ...
The work investigates pattern recognition methods to detect venation patterns on leaves. An autom... more The work investigates pattern recognition methods to detect venation patterns on leaves. An automated technique that involves scale space analysis and an automated technique that includes a combination of edge detectors are compared with a manual technique. A small data set of five images is considered in this initial exploratory work and the results are qualitatively evaluated. The results show
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