At Reading Frank Bisby, Alistair Culham, Neil Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris Yesson

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At ReadingFrank Bisby, Alistair Culham, Neil
Caithness, Tim Sutton, Peter Brewer, Chris
Yesson At CardiffAlec Gray, Andrew Jones, Nick
Fiddian, Nick Pittas, Xuebiao Xu, Richard
White At SouthamptonOliver Bromley At
NHMMalcolm Scoble, Paul Williams, Shonil Bhagwat
A BBSRC e-Science Project
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What are the goals of BDWorld?

• Extensible problem solving environment for global
  biodiversity analysis
• Distributed computing
• Employ GRID technology
• Resource location
• Workflow design validation

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Architecture
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Implementation
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Some relevant resource types

• Data sources
• Species 2000 Catalogue of Life
• Species Information Sources (SISs)
• e.g. AVH, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, CBIF, MBG...DIGIR,
  ABCD etc
• Geographical
• Boundaries of geographical political units
• Climate surfaces (Hadley, Paul Valdes'
  Palaeoclimate Data)
• Genetic sequences (EMBL, local data)
• Analytic tools
• Biodiversity richness assessment (WorldMap)
• Bioclimatic modelling (Garp, CSM, Bioclim)
• Phylogenetic analysis (Paup, clustalw, etc)

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Bioclimatic Modelling Basics
CBIF, MBG, SpeciesAnalyst, RDG, AVH..
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Bioclimatic Modelling
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Climate preference or niche (GARP, CSM, BIOCLIM)
summarised
. . .
Additional variables
projected
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Biodiversity Conservation Assessment
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WorldMap richness and minimum area set
summarised
visualise
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Phylogenetic Biogeography
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Using climate data in conjunction with phylogenies
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www.bdworld.org