We present the Vancouver Event and Relation System for Extraction (VERSE)1 as a competing system for three subtasks of the BioNLP Shared Task 2016. VERSE performs full event extraction including entity, relation and modification extraction using a feature-based approach. It achieved the highest F1-score in the Bacteria Biotope (BB3) event subtask and the third highest F1-score in the Seed Devel...

Currently, there is an increasing focus on understanding the interactions between genetic features of invader and environmental factors that ensure success invasion. The objective our study was to evaluate diversity Lithuanian populations highly invasive small balsam (Impatiens parviflora) by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers relate molecular data biotope defined employing n...

Triatoma guasayana is a silvatic triatomine species distributed in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The study was performed in a secondary forest of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. The abundance of T. guasayana was evaluated by census in the following wild biotopes: quimiles (Opuntia quimilo), chaguares (dry bromeliads), logs and underground burrows. Ten biotopes of each type were dismantled in...

The duality between "niche" and "biotope" proposed by G. Evelyn Hutchinson provides a powerful way to conceptualize and analyze biogeographical distributions in relation to spatial environmental patterns. Both Joseph Grinnell and Charles Elton had attributed niches to environments. Attributing niches, instead, to species, allowed Hutchinson's key innovation: the formal severing of physical plac...