ecoinformatics

English

Etymology

eco- +‎ informatics

Noun

ecoinformatics (uncountable)

  1. (ecology, computing) The use of computing and information science in ecology
    • 2015 July 1, Patricia A. Soranno et al., “Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse”, in GigaScience‎, volume 4, DOI:10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4:
      Although there are difficult challenges associated with building these integrated datasets, these same challenges provide substantial opportunities, especially for early-career ecologists, for interdisciplinary training in ecoinformatics and database management, and classical ecology; thus pushing the ecological boundary to answer important macrosystems ecology questions.
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