Biodiversity needs a scientific approach

Why Biodiversity Research needs Semantics

Biodiversity science investigates biological diversity on all levels and scales. There is strong evidence that biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates and that this will have dire consequences for humankind. Consequently, there is a strong need for science to support political decision making in this area. Thus key questions of biodiversity science are: What is out there? Why is it the...

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta-analysis of factors determining intra-urban biodiversity variation.

Understanding varying levels of biodiversity within cities is pivotal to protect it in the face of global urbanisation. In the early stages of urban ecology studies on intra-urban biodiversity focused on the urban-rural gradient, representing a broad generalisation of features of the urban landscape. Increasingly, studies classify the urban landscape in more detail, quantifying separately the e...

Scientific Correspondence Zinnia. Everybody Needs Good Neighbors

Cells in an organism exist within a social context— the sum of interactions with neighboring cells help to define the nature of each individual. The Zinnia system provides a unique opportunity to study in vitro the interactions between different plant cell types and the consequences for commitment to a particular cell fate. Zinnia is a model system in which mesophyll cells, released from young ...

Indexing the indices: scientific publishing needs to undergo a revolution

Integrating multiple scientific computing needs via a Private Cloud infrastructure

In a typical scientific computing centre, diverse applications coexist and share a single physical infrastructure. An underlying Private Cloud facility eases the management and maintenance of heterogeneous use cases such as multipurpose or application-specific batch farms, Grid sites catering to di↵erent communities, parallel interactive data analysis facilities and others. It allows to dynamic...