Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics of Biodiversity Measurement, Comparison and Management in the Age of Indicators and Information Technology

Biodiversity measurement, comparison and related hotspot geoinformatics are challenging issues and opportunities in the twenty-first century of statistical ecology, environmental statistics, risk analysis, knowledge discovery, decision making, and decision support in the age of ecological, environmental, and socio-economic indicators. This paper covers diversity measurement and comparison, diversity profiles, biodiversity indicators selection for monitoring, etiology, early warning, and management, substantive and geographic considerations, etc. The paper also attempts to demonstrate that the societal biodiversity issues and concerns for knowledge discovery and decision making have also led to interesting and innovative mathematical, statistical, computational, visualizational, and software developmental issues and approaches for decision support in multi-scale advanced raster map analysis area in this age of indicators and information technology of digital governance. This material is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0307010. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsoring agencies.