Poster Presentations

One part of the e-Biosphere 09 Street Fair consisted of 180 poster presentations (see floorplan). The abstracts for these poster displays can be found in the Abstracts Volume. Some of the presenters have submitted copies of their posters and these are linked to the titles below.

 

Category
Area
  Application: Conservation
  Application: Agriculture
  Application: Fisheries
  Application: Industry
  Application: Forestry
  Application: Invasive Alien Species
   
  Application: Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems: Fungi
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems: Insects
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems: Marine Invertebrates
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems: Vertebrates
  Application: Taxonomy and Identification Systems: Plants
   
  New Tools, Services and Standards for Data Management and Access
  New Modeling Tools
  New Tools for Data Integration
  New Approaches to Biodiversity Infrastructure
  New Approaches to Species Identification
  New Approaches to Mapping Biodiversity
   
  National and Regional Biodiversity Databases and Networks

 

 

  Presenter Institution Title
A1 Balback, Harold USA-ERDC Population Viability Without Population Data: Creating a Virtual Population Profile

A2 Ihwagi, Ifestus Save the Elephants Tracking Animals for Conservation

A3 Jayeola, Adeniyi A. University of Ibadan The Significance of informatics in Managing Globally threatened Trees of Africa

A4 Kim, Brian H.S. Yonsei University Economic Valuation Methods of Biodiversity

A5 Leppänen, Jarno University of Helsinki The Zonation conservation planning framework and software

A6 Waruingi, Lucy African Conservation Centre/African Conservation Fund Biodiversity Informatics – Defining integrated Conservation Strategies in the African Savannahs

A7 Atoyebi, O.J. National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology Potentials in Biodiversity Information Systems to GenBank Management: The Nigeria's Case Study

A8 Gaiji, Samy GBIF GBIF: Providing means for evaluating the impact of climate change on crop wild relatives

A9 Issolah, Rachida INRAA (National Institute of Agronomic Research of Algeria) The vegetative development within some Algerian populations of Hedysarum coronarium L.

A10 Kasina, J. M. Kenya Agricultural Research Institute Fostering bioinformatics research in Kenyan agricultural research: a case of pest management within Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Kenya

A11 Sadi, Tosiah Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development Institute

AgrobIS: The Malaysia Agrobiodiversity Information System

A12 Barde, Julien IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

A knowledge base for Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

A13 Saccone, Cecilia IBM Italia S.p.A. The Molecular Biodiversity Laboratory (MBLab): a private-public research initiative involved in the study and the use of Molecular Biodiversity for Industrial applications

A14 Heintz, Wilfred ECOFOR Ca-SIF : a shared and standarized catalogue to provide information on forest ecosystems

A15 Jayakumar, S. Yonsei University Need for standardization of measurement techniques to create global database on floristic inventory and diversity status

A16 Malouin, Christian Canadian Forest Service Case studies of Biodiversity Informatics within the Canadian Forest Service

A17 Senyonjo, Nicholas Uganda Environmental Education Foundation (UEEF) Enhancing the Livelihoods of Local Communities Dependent on Echuya Forest, Uganda

A18 Didziulis, Viktoras Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University Overview of pan-European Alien Species Information systems - from databases to data mining and visualization

A19 Fournier, Christine US Geological Survey / National Biological Information Infrastructure

The Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN)

A20 Naršcius, Aleksas Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University Biopollution assessment service - from idea to information system

A21 Slipetskyy, Denys Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) Region-Wide Black Sea Mnemiopsis Leidyi On-line Database

B1 Aronowsky, Audrey The Field Museum Synthesis of information in systematics, evolution, and biogeography: workshops and tool development for EOL

B2 Combik, Michal W. Szafer Institute of Botany Polish Academy of Science SRadar, a novel approach to whole genome sequence repeats finding algorithm by algebraic distance translation.

B3 MD Zain, Badrul Munir Univesiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Molecular Phylogenetics Of The Malaysian Cercoopithecidae: How Reliable is the mitochondrial DNA Sequences Data?

B4 MD Zain, Badrul Munir Univesiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Phylogenetic Relationships of the Senoi Orang Asli Compared to Other tribes in Peninsular Malaysia Using Y Chromosome DNA sequences

B5 MD Zain, Badrul Munir National Universiti of Malaysia Systematics Relationships of the genus Macaca based on the 12S rRNA sequences

B6 Piel, William H. Yale Peabody Museum TreeBASE version 2: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge.

B7 Wetzer, Regina and Pentcheff, N. Dean Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Exploring vs. cataloging: Why don’t systematists play well with others?

B8 Allkin, Bob Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle France

Meeting the needs of those who use scientific names

B9

Presenter has requested that poster be moved to

National and Regional Biodiversity Databases and Networks ( K9)

B10 Rees, Tony CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia Fuzzy Matching of Taxon Names for Biodiversity Informatics Applications

B11 Robert, Vincent CBS Mycobank: the fungal biosphere

B12 Barbouche, N. Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie

Inventory on the wild bees of Tunisia.

B13 Ries, Leslie University of Maryland Butterfly informatics: The use of North American monitoring databases for answering large-scale ecological and evolutionary questions in butterfly biology

B14 Saraiva, Antonio University of São Paulo - Polytechnic School Pollinators Information Network for the Americas – IABIN-PTN

B15 Warrit, Natapot Chulalongkorn University The Online World Bee Checklist

B16 Zalat, Samy Mohammed Suez Canal University, Faculty of Science and Nature Conservation Sector, Ministry of Environmental Affairs

Butterflies of Egypt. Atlas, Red Data Listing & Conservation

B17 Allison, M.D. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute The Design and Implementation of a Database and Species Pages to Support the Census of Marine Zooplankton

C1 Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquín INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA Mexican Mammal Synonymies: Learning the story of the mammals from the name.

C2 Bogutskaya, Nina G. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Georeferencing and hierarchically arranged gazetteers: a fish type localities case study.

C3 Mayden, Richard L. Saint Louis University Cypriniformes Commons: A Web–Based Biodiversity Information Collaboration and Scientific Communication Platform

C4 Navarro, René Animal Demography Unit - University of Cape Town Online virtual museum of the reptiles South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland and conservation assessment database

C5 Abdul Rashid, Mumtaz Behan University of Malaysia Image Database System Of Ferns Collection In Malaysia

C6 Birnbaum, Philippe CIRAD-UMR AMAP Pl@ntNote: a flexible software for the management and share of data on plants

C7 Gaikwad, Jitendra Macquarie University, Faculty of Science, Dept of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences

Combating medicinal plant extinction and indigenous culture loss – an Australian model

C8 Kaid–Harche, Meriem University of Sciences and Technology Mohamed Boudiaf Oran

New kwowledges about perennial grass ( Lygeum spartum L.)

C9 Lalithamba, A. D.K.Govt.College for Women, Nellore, A.P.

Cybertaxonmy -a necessity for biodiversity conservation.

C10 Onyia, C. O. National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja Bioprospecting of Sukur World Heritage Site, Adamawa State of Nigeria: the Traditional Medicinal Application to Malaria Control

C11 Phillipson, Peter B. Missouri Botanical Garden Cataloguing the Plants of Madagascar

C12 Prokhorov, Alexey Council of Botanical Gardens of Russia Use of informational system on collections of botanical gardens for studying and conservation of genetic resources of plants

C13 Rath, Jnanendra Visva-Bharati University Digitize inventory of Soil and freshwater algae from coastal region of Orissa state, India

C14 Romeiras, Maria Tropical Research Institute of Lisbon (IICT) Looking ahead: Contributions by IICT to e-Biodiversity in African Portuguese-speaking countries

C15 Tahrouch, Saïda University Ibn Zohr Involvment of polyphenols in the chemotaxonomy and the adaptation of Argan tree to its area.

C16 Terekhina, Natalia St.-Petersburg State University Candidate of Science in Geography

C17 Ugbogu, Omokafe Alaba Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria

The Herbarium Information System of FHI

C18 Ugege, Peter Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria

Herbarium Management Information System

C19 Vibrans, Heike Laboratorio de Etnobotánica How do we get all the species information we need in all the languages we need? A perspective from a mega-diverse, non-English-speaking country.

C20 Young, Fee University of Reading e-monography on a shoestring: Lacistemataceae Holistic Database @ www.lacistemataceae.org

C21 Bou Dagher-Kharrat, Magda Université Saint Joseph Virtual flora of Lebanon, the first step in the long conservation pathway…

D1 Åhlberg, Mauri University of Helsinki NatureGate®: Free, rapid, interactive online service for identification of species, promoting biodiversity learning, studying, teaching and understanding

D2 Ariño, Arturo H. University of Navarra Noise in Biodiversity Data

D3 Bailly, Nicolas The WorldFish Center The ISBEARG framework: Rising Biodiversity Informatics to a mature scientific discipline

D4 Bellisari, Livia Comunità Ambiente Setting up a Service Centre for EU Biodiversity

D5 Bertrand, Nicolas Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Semantic Data Integration of biodiversity data with the SERONTO ontology

D6 Chabalier, Julie Natural Solutions eRelevé: a solution for global biodiversity assessment

D7 Conruyt, Noel EA 25-25, LIM/IREMIA, University of Reunion Island Managing insular tropical biodiversity through alpha e-systematics: application to corals of the Mascarene Archipelago

D8 Didziulis, Viktoras Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University Taxonomy Navigator: an alternative front-end for the Catalogue of Life taxonomic database

D9 Figueira, Rui Tropical Research Institute of Lisbon (IICT) Putting data sharing in perspective: who is using biodiversity data?

D10 Fradin, H. European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris

A character may hide another

D11 Gaiji, Samy GBIF The Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System

D12 Gaiji, Samy GBIF The GBIF Work Programme 2009-2010: From Prototype towards Full Operation

D13 Hardisty, A. Cardiff School of Computer Science

Vision and Ambition for LifeWatch ICT Infrastructure

D14 Hardisty, A. Cardiff School of Computer Science

Reference Model for the LifeWatch ITC Infrastructure

D15 Heo, Joon Yonsei University Integrated Database design for Biodiversity Informatics

D16 Holetschek, J. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Using the GBIF Infrastructure to set up Special Interest Networks

D17 Kelbert, Patricia Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

The SYNTHESYS Specimen and Observation Portal

D18 King, Nick GBIF GBIF: Providing a global infrastructure, data and tools to inform climate and biodiversity policy

D19 Kroupa, Alexander Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Field recording tools and techniques for All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories + Monitoring (ATBI+M) sites under the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)

D20 Lapp, Hilmar National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) Phenoscape: Linking phenotypic biodiversity to model organism genetics using ontologies

D21 Lyashevska, Olga Queens University Belfast How do we quantify biodiversity? All the evidence in one place.

D22 Mata, Erick Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica Biovisualizador(c) a three dimensional visualization tool for taxonomic trees

D23 Mergen, Patricia Royal Museum for Central Africa The Biodiversity Information and Cyber-Taxonomy Unit of the Royal Museum for Central Africa

D24 Mora Cross, Maria National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), Costa Rica A Web-Based Toolkit for the Establishment of Biodiversity Information Generation, Management and Dissemination Systems

E1 Newstrom-Lloyd, Linda Landcare Research Composite Profiles for the Oceania Pollinator Initiative

E2 Pentcheff, N. Dean and Wetzer, Regina Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County When will there be a single taxonomic nameserver, or, Who will bell the cat?

E3 Remsen, David GBIF GBIF: The Global Name Architecture

E4 Riccardi, Greg Florida State University Linking Media and Ontology through Annotation

E5 Richards, Kevin Landcare Research, Global Names Usage Bank (GNUB)

An implementation using Fungal Taxon Names.

E6 Robertson, Tim GBIF GBIF: Release of the Integrated Publishing Toolkit and next steps in building a global biodiversity informatics network

E7 Savini, Vilma Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agricola, Universidad Central de Venezuela

GIOIA: an open source, scalable, biodiversity data management application

E8 Smith, Vincent S. Natural History Museum Scratchpads

E9 Suhrbier, Lutz Freie Universität Berlin Single Sign-On for the EDIT platform

E10 Triebel, Dagmar Botanische Staatssammlung München and IT Centre of the Bavarian Natural History Collections

Developing a sustainable working platform for gathering biological data in the field

E11 Ung, Visotheary CNRS, Paris Xper²: introducing e-Taxonomy

E12 White, Richard J. Cardiff University Persistent identifiers for changing taxon concepts: the role of LSIDs in the Catalogue of Life

E13 Canhos, Dora Ann Lange Centro de Referencia em Informação Ambiental The use of ecological niche modeling in the evaluation of priority areas for the conservation of the State of São Paulo's Cerrado considering global climate change

E14 Canhos, Vanderlei Perez CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental openModeller – a generic framework for potential distribution modeling

E15 Heo, Joon Yonsei University Reliability-Improved AI-base Prediction and Mapping of Soil Microbial Diversity from Existing Environmental Databases

E16 Parfenova, Elena Forest Institute of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Potential Biodiversity of Main Conifers in Siberia

E17 Chandra, Sandeep Conservation International Tropical Ecology Monitoring and Assessment Network

G21 Saraiva, Antonio Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo

Species Distribution Modeling with Neural Networks

G22 Saraiva, Antonio Universidade de São Paulo A Service-based Framework for Species Distribution Modeling

G23 Cuní Sanchez, Aida Centre for Underutilised Crops (CUC)

Modelling baobab distribution in climate change

F1 Berendsohn, Walter G. Freie Universität Berlin, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Software Components for the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy

F2 Campos dos Santos, José Laurindo Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) Scientific Knowledge Management, Information and Communication Technology at the reach of scientific programs in Amazonia

F3 Kidd, David M. Cenre for Population Biology, Imperial College London The Entangled Bank": connecting ecological data with semantic web and machine-learning technologies"

F4 Los, Wouter Universiteit van Amsterdam LifeWatch, e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories

F5 Michener, William University of New Mexico DataNetONE: A Virtual Data Center for Biology, Eco

F6 Müller, Andreas Freie Universität Berlin, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM)

Missing Links: The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy

F7 O'Tuama, Eamonn Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat

GBIF – helping to build a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

F8 Prabhakar, R. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment A Map-based Portal for Aggregating User-contributed Content on Biodiversity Informatics

F9 Salazar, Fernando Fundación Gaia Amazonas Spatial and Temporal Integration System for Biodiversity Information

F10 Scott, Stephen D. University of Nebraska An Extensible Semantic Bridge between Biodiversity and Genomics

F11 van Muylem, Koen Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Monitor Taskforce "Analysis of the Biodiversity Information Landscape in Europe: A perspective from LifeWatch"

F12 Bakis, Yasin Abant Izzet Baysal University Species Lookup Bar

F13 Groom, Quentin National Botanic Garden of Belgium The Digitised Flora of Central Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda & Burundi)

F14 Kasperek, Gerwin University Library, Frankfurt am Main vifabio - A guide to biodiversity-related resources in libraries and on the internet

F15 Lapp, Hilmar National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

The Dryad Data Repository

F16 Lyal, Christopher H. C.and Weitzman, Anna L. The Natural History Museum Liberating the literature. INOTAXA: a powerful means of finding and repurposing published taxonomic information and data.

F17 Smith, Jane Natural History Museum (London) Connecting taxonomists with literature via the EDIT Virtual Taxonomic Library

G1 Abdo, Zaid University of Idaho Tools for the study of the diversity of microbial communities: A Bayesian model-based alignment of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) profiles of 16S rRNA

G2 Baljinova, Tsetseg Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences

Molecular Diversity of Mongolian Actinomycetes

G3 Barthélémy, Daniel INRA The Pl@ntNet project: Plant Computational Identification & Collaborative Information System

G4 Boakye, Daniel Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research Diversity in Anopheles gambiae s.l. and the distribution Lymphatic filariasis in Ghana

G5 Boakye, Daniel A. Cameroon Taxonomic relationship of the molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s. Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) from the middle belt of Ghana as determined by the analysis of cytochrome C oxidase subunit one (CO1) Sequences

G6 Bonnet, Pierre CIRAD A graphical tool for computer-assisted plant identification

G7 Dröge, Gabriele Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem DNA Bank Network -bridging the gap between biological specimen repositories, DNA collections and molecular sequence databases

G8 Enficiaud, Raffi INRIA Advances in taxonomic identification by image recognition, with the generic content-based image retrieval IKONA

G9 Forest, Felix Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo TreeBOL-Europe: barcoding the European native tree species

G10 Kumar, N. Pradeep Vector Control Research Centre (ICMR), Pondicherry

DNA barcoding' of mosquito species in India

G11 Pauwels, Eric Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Automated photo-identification methods for naturally marked sea animals

G12 Stout, Nancy Jacobsen Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Cataloguing Biodiversity in the Deep-Sea: Tools, Techniques, and Challenges

G13 Coetzer, Willem South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity Integration, expert validation, use and dissemination of aquatic biodiversity information

G14 Didziulis, Viktoras Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University

Integrating data mining with GIS for habitat mapping

G15 Fajardo, Waldo Universidad de Granada Automatic georeferencing of incomplete records of collections using Intelligent Multiagent Systems

G16 Froese, Rainer IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany Standardized Range Maps for Eventually All Species in the Oceans

G17 Mergen, Patricia Royal Museum for Central Africa EDIT Geographical Platform Components

G18 O'Tuama, Eamonn GBIF GBIF: Enabling infrastructure and access to data and tools for forecasting climate change impacts on marine resources

G19 Parks, Kate Kings College, London Using GBIF data to validate a spatial model of geodiversity

G20 Roca Ristol, Pere Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) Enhancing the visualization of biological data: EDIT Geographic tools

H1 Addink, Wouter ETI BioInformatics A Species Information Authoring Tool Underpinning Distributed, Collaborative Information Harvesting and Sharing in Tanzania.

H2 Ameka, Gabriel University of Ghana, Department of Biology

Digitizing specimens of the endemic flora in Ghana

H3 Ardila, Mónica Lucia Vera Instituto de investigación de recursos biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

Metadata National Network and Cassia Tools To Discover Biodiversity Information in Colombia

H4 Asase, Alex and Owusu-Afriyie, George University of Ghana 'The Ghana Biodiversity Informatics Project': Developing Biodiversity Informatics Tools to Support the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Ghana

H5 Ashano, E.E. National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja-Nigeria

Applying Bioinformatics to Biodiversity Research in Biodiversity-Rich, but Technology-Poor Regions

H6 Bastos-Silveira, Cristiane Museu Nacional de Historia Natural/Centro Biologia Ambiental

How do we increase the value of our data and thereby of our collections and thereby of biodiversity?

H7 Bhuiya, Badrul Amin University of Chittagong, Department of Zoology

BRGB Species Checklist: A Database of Bangladesh

H8 Bonaccorso, Elisa Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador-Museo de Zoologia de Vertebrados Developing a biodiversity information system in Ecuador (BISE): Integrating taxonomic expertise, bioinformatics, and open access

H9 Bourgoin, Thierry Swedish Museum of Natural History European natural history collections, biodiversity informatics and the role of CETAF

H10 Cejas, Francisco National Biodiversity Center (Centro Nacional de Biodiversidad)

Cuban Biodiversity Information Network

H11 Danis, Bruno Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences www.SCARMarBIN.be : direct access to Antarctic marine biodiversity

H12 de Jong, Yde Zoological Museum Amsterdam A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)

H13 Berendsohn, Walter G. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin

The LifeWatch Action Plan for the Digitisation of European Natural History Collections

H14 Gutiérrez Alfaro, Jaime National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica (INBio) Towards a New Generation of Naturalist Citizens: Generating and Delivering Multimedia Biodiversity Information and Knowledge to Empower Citizens

H15 Hendriks, Kees Natural History Museum Naturalis STERNA Semantic Web based thematic European Reference network application

H16 Hendriks, Kees Natural History Museum Naturalis Dutch species catalogue: regional node of Encyclopedia of Life

H17 Hobern, Donald Atlas of Living Australia Building the Atlas of Living Australia

H18 Ji, Liqiang Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Developing the Species 2000 China Node

H19 Jinbo, Utsugi The University of Tokyo The GBIF Japan National Node

H20 Johnson, Geoff National Biodiversity Network Trust National Biodiversity Network - Making a partnership work

H21 Kangethe, Simon NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA BOTANY DEPARTMENT A New Dawn For Biodiversity Informatics In East Africa; Case Study of -East African Herbarium Digitization Process

H22 Kim, Chang-Bae Sangmyung University An integrated Korean biodiversity and genetic information retrieval system
H23 Koleff, Patricia CONABIO (National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity)

Using biodiversity data in Mexico: Lessons learned
H24 Lizaralde de Grosso, Mercedes Bionet-International-Latinet, Argentina

Biodiversity informatics in Argentina (1999-2009)
J1 Marino, Alexandre CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental

JRS Project: Enhancing the speciesLink Network (splink.cria.org.br)
J2 McCormick, Tim British Geological Survey The British Geological Survey "Palaeosaurus" Biostratigraphy Collection Database
J3 Mergen, Patricia Royal Museum for Central Africa

CABIN : A Biodiversity Information Network for Central Africa
J4 Newstrom-Lloyd, Linda Landcare Research Integrated Information System for the Oceania Pollinator Initiative based on a federation of distributed databases
J5 O Riain, Gearoid National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland / Compass Informatics Ltd.

BiodiversityIreland - the Mapping Information System of the National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland
J6 Otieno, Nickson E. National Museums of Kenya Upgrading and Networking of Collection Specimen Information at the National Museums of Kenya for Research and Education
J7 Perez, Tila Maria Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico

UNIBIO: Integrating and sharing biodiversity information using web services architecture
J8 Sakaguchi, Noriaki Biodiversity Center of Japan Introduction of the East and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Inventory Initiative (ESABII)
K1 Skelton, Posa PACINET (Pacific Islands Network for Taxonomy), University of the South Pacific

The state of Pacific Islands Bioinformatics – a modern dilemma
K2 Slipetskyy, Denys Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IBSS)

Special software to create online marine species checklists
K3 Strobbe, Francis Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)

Species register of Belgium: an on-line annotated check list of the eukaryote organisms in Belgium
K4 Suarez-Mayorga, Angela Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute

The Information Management Route of the Biodiversity Information System Of Colombia (SiB)
K5 Tulig, Melissa The New York Botanical Garden Before the Bells and Whistles, the Train:  Parsing Plant Diversity Data from the Southwestern Amazon
K6 Ugalde, Jesus Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)

Establishing Ecosystem Conservation Priorities in the Neotropics by Integrating Biodiversity and Geospatial Data
K7 Yaméogo, Laurent African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) Providing public access to the unique biomonitoring database of the West African aquatic fauna collected during 29 years of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa (OCP).
K8 Kõljalg, Urmas University of Tartu

Estonian Biodiversity Database
K9 Desmet, Peter Institut de recherche en biologie végétale - Université de Montréal

Canadensys : unlocking Canada's biological collection information

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