UNC Ecoinformatics Working Group

What we are about?

The UNC Ecoinformatics Working Group seeks general patterns and mechanisms in community ecology through exploration and of large databases of species cooccurrence information, species attribute information, and site attribute information.

Potential ecoinformatics projects

Pending tasks and assignments

Publications and abstracts

Active Working Group Projects

• Environment and species composition correlations (Peet)
• Neutral model design (Jobe)
• Phylogenetics (Ott)
• Plot methods and Stohlgren evaluation (Wentworth, White, Fridley, Peet)
• Specialist vs generalist species (Vandermast, Kuppinger, Fridley, Peet)
• Species-area relationships(Fridley, Wentworth, White, Gramling, Peet)
• Species-richness at the continental level (Fridley, Weakley, White, Peet)
• Species pools (Gramling, Wentworth, Fridley, Peet)
• Richness, rarity, uniqueness, and endemism (Peet, Weakley, Wentworth, etc.)

Inactive Working Group Projects

• Distance decay (Taverna, Xi)
• Comparison of Chinese and North American beech forests (Fang, Xi, White, Peet)
• pH gradients and species pools (Gramling, Peet)
• Species relative abundance (Jones)
• Wiregrass and Longleaf pine community structure (Kaplan)

Carolina Vegetation Survey Databases

• Access to and use of the database
• View Mike Lee's PowerPoint tutorial
• Sampling protocol paper in Castanea
• Pulse Guide
• SAS programs for manipulating CVS data
• Toward a plant trait database
• Toward a plant county occurrence database

Tools

Reading lists

Ecoinformatics Links