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Supporting biodiversity studies with the EUBrazilOpenBio Hybrid Data Infrastructure

Amaral, Rafael; Badia, Rosa M; Blanquer Espert, Ignacio; Braga-Neto, Ricardo; Candela, Leonardo; Castelli, Donatella; Flann, Christina; De Giovanni, Renato; Gray, William A; Jones, Andrew; Lezzi, Daniele; Pagano, Pasquale; Perez-Canhos, Vanderlei; Quevedo, Francisco; Rafanell, Roger; Rebello, Vinod; Sousa-Baena, Mariane S; Torres Serrano, Erik

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376 394 27 2 ; Brazilian Virtual Herbarium Consortium Brazilian Virtual Herbarium 2013 http://biogeo.inct.florabrasil.net/ ; S Hirzel, A. H., Hausser, J., Chessel, D., & Perrin, N. (2002). ECOLOGICAL-NICHE FACTOR ANALYSIS: HOW TO COMPUTE HABITAT-SUITABILITY MAPS WITHOUT ABSENCE DATA? Ecology, 83(7), 2027-2036. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2027:enfaht]2.0.co;2 ; Brazilian Ministry of Environment Instrução normativa no. 6, 23 de setembro de 2008 2008 http://www.mma.gov.br/estruturas/179/_arquivos/179_05122008033615.pdf ; [EN] EUBrazilOpenBio is a collaborative initiative addressing strategic barriers in biodiversity research by integrating open access data and user-friendly tools widely available in Brazil and Europe. The project deploys the EU-Brazil Hybrid Data Infrastructure that allows the sharing of hardware, software and data on-demand. This infrastructure provides access to several integrated services and resources to seamlessly aggregate taxonomic, biodiversity and climate data, used by processing services implementing checklist cross-mapping and ecological niche modelling. A Virtual Research Environment was created to provide users with a single entry point to processing and data resources. This article describes the architecture, demonstration use cases and some experimental results and validation. EUBrazilOpenBio - Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity (2011-2013) is a Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) funded by the European Commission under the Cooperation Programme, Framework Programme Seven (FP7) Objective FP7-ICT-2011- EU-Brazil Research and Development cooperation, and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq) of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) under the corresponding matching Brazilian Call for proposals MCT/CNPq 066/2010. BSC authors also acknowledge the support of the grant SEV-2011-00067 of Severo Ochoa Program, awarded by the Spanish Government and the Spanish ...