Biodiverse

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Biodiverse

Summary

Type of tool

Application

Function

Biodiversity modelling

Online / Desktop

Desktop and online

Computer infrastructure

Perl based desktop and an online web server

Development status

Experimental

Time of use

As a post process, when data is with user

Licence

Unknown

Biodiverse is a powerful spatial analysis tool for analysing multi species patterns of species distribution.

 

Description

Analyses are constructed to account for many of the limitations inherent to museum data (eg from herbaria), in that they do not assume that an absence from the data set is a true absence.1

 

Biodiverse is able to use datasets of sample point data for any practical grid size.

Biodiverse can then undertake a quantitative analysis of:

  • Species richness
  • Endemism
  • Neighbourhood analysis
  • Compositional dissimilarities
  • Sampling adequacy

 

Biodiverse can also accept Nexus formatted tree data and is able to create clade area relationships.

 

Function

  • Visualisation tool
    • Maps
  • Analysis tool
    • Complex
  • User interface
    • Personal use
    • Data is displayed visually through its own GIS interface,

      or can be saved as a spreadsheet.

 

Why use this tool?

  • Analysis of species distributions

 

 Who will use this tool?

  • Data users
    • Expert
  • Requires special skills

 

 How will the tool be used?

  • Uses datasets of any species with point data of any chosen grid size
  • Acceptable data formats: CSV, ORGD, XML
  • An online web-based tool and a stand-alone desktop program which runs in Perl
  • User input is required

 

 Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

  • User’s machine

 

 When could this tool be used?

  • As a post process, after data is with the user

 

Availability

 

Comments

This is very powerful software although in an experimental state.

 

 

Comments (1)

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Shawn Laffan said

at 2:56 pm on Nov 11, 2009

New URL for availability: http://purl.oclc.org/biodiverse

The original online web based tool has been disabled. It should now link to the one we developed with Ajay.

Help: http://purl.oclc.org/biodiverse

License: LGPL

Cost: Free

Acceptable data formats: delimited text (plus Nexus for trees).

List of analyses: http://code.google.com/p/biodiverse/wiki/Analyses_and_Indices

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