Lifewatch: Swedish Biodiversity Internet Database Gets the Go-ahead
July 2, 2010| |
A database for biodiversity and observatories of the pan European e-Science and Technology Infrastructure called LIFEWATCH is being developed in Sweden by the Swedish Research Council. The news article says that "LIFEWATCH will collate information on the state of animal and plant species all over Europe. It will combine a system of marine, terrestrial and freshwater observatories, and give the research community common access to interlinked, distributed data from databases and monitoring sites. In addition, it will provide computational facilities in virtual laboratories with analytical and modelling tools as well as user support and training".
'With just a few clicks you will be able to directly find out if a species has decreased or increased, what happens if the climate or the water quality changes, or what environmental factors are key to forest species in Götaland,' says Professor Ulf Gärdenfors of SLU, the coordinator of the Swedish LIFEWATCH project. The project is expected to run in three year's time.
See the news article at http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=32277
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