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The evolution of e-Ecology
Willem Bouten
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem DynamicsUniversity of Amsterdam
Our Scientific Challenges
• Increased human pressure on nature
• Data explosion as an opportunity
• Virtual Fieldwork
• e-Ecology towards a quantitative predictive science
Research aim: to understand interactions between abiotic and biotic components of systems at different scales
eScience approach for integrating models and measurements
e-Ecology
e-Ecology is a multidisciplinary scientific approach to answer ecological questions,
by organizing computer networked collaborations and distributed resources,
and by utilizing new developments in computer science, information and communication technology (ICT).
Citizen science Bird radars GPS-tracking
> 20.000 users> 50 M observations
NDFF
Streaming dataMany TB
ENRAM network
Streaming data
40 Word-wide projects
Our virtual labs for e-Ecology
Allegranza
Madagaskar
Measurement interval 48 secTri-axial accelerometer at 20 Hz
An example
Our next Challenge(s) in eEcology
• Quatifying the 3D structure of the world vegetationas a proxy for biodiversity
• Confronting theoretical models with observations in a Bayesian framework
• Introduce e-Ecology in the curriculum of ecology