The term "biotope" was introduced by a German scientist, Dahl in 1908 as an addition to the concept of "biocenosis" earlier formulated by Möbius (1877). Initially it determined the physical-chemical conditions of existence of a biocenosis ("the biotope of a biocenosis"). Further, both biotope and biocenosis were respectively considered as abiotic and biotic parts of an ecosystem. This notion ("...

Vegetation provides important functions and services in urban areas, and vegetation heights divided into vertical and horizontal units can be used as indicators for its assessment. Conversely, detailed area-wide and updated height information is frequently missing for most urban areas. This study sought to assess three vegetation height classes from a globally available TanDEM-X digital elevati...

Urban biotopes are of high importance for ecological urban planning. In contrast to the common practice of producing urban biotope maps – by visual interpretation of colour-infrared aerial photographs in combination with field investigations – this investigation presents an efficient system for updating existing urban biotope maps by automatic analysis of remote sensing (RS) data. For such a sy...

This paper presents the Bacteria Biotope task as part of the BioNLP Shared Tasks 2011. The Bacteria Biotope task aims at extracting the location of bacteria from scientific Web pages. Bacteria location is a crucial knowledge in biology for phenotype studies. The paper details the corpus specification, the evaluation metrics, summarizes and discusses the participant results.

Complex real world phenomena require means for reducing and modelling the underlying complexity. They ask for methods and tools to exploit the crucial information intelligently, for addressing dynamics and monitoring constant changes. The project Biotope Information and Management System (BIMS), carried out in a 3654 km2 sized area in the region of Stuttgart/Germany, provides means for delineat...

This paper presents the Bacteria Biotope task of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013, which follows BioNLP-ST-11. The Bacteria Biotope task aims to extract the location of bacteria from scientific web pages and to characterize these locations with respect to the OntoBiotope ontology. Bacteria locations are crucial knowledge in biology for phenotype studies. The paper details the corpus specifications, ...

This paper describes the system of the INRA Bibliome research group applied to the Bacteria Biotope (BB) task of the BioNLP 2011 shared tasks. Bacteria, geographical locations and host entities were processed by a pattern-based approach and domain lexical resources. For the extraction of environment locations, we propose a framework based on semantic analysis supported by an ontology of the bio...

Continent-wide loss of traditionally managed humid meadows is raising concern for associated butterfly specialists across Europe. However, not all species associated with this biotope are threatened, and the Lesser Marbled Fritillary (Brenthis ino) has even spread locally. We employed mark-recapture and transect walks to study its population structure and patterns of landscape occupancy in a hi...

BACKGROUND The majority of vector-borne infections occur in the tropics, including Africa, but molecular eco-epidemiological studies are seldom reported from these regions. In particular, most previously published data on ticks in Ethiopia focus on species distribution, and only a few molecular studies on the occurrence of tick-borne pathogens or on ecological factors influencing these. The pre...