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Specification of SOA Components and Web Services to Integrate Ecological Niche Modelling Systems and IABIN-PTN

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Citation:  7th World Congress on Computers in Agriculture Conference Proceedings, 22-24 June 2009, Reno, Nevada (electronic only)  711P0409e.(doi:10.13031/2013.29049)
Authors:   Renata L Stange, Fabiana S Santana, Bruna Buani, Pedro L. P Correa, Antonio M Saraiva
Keywords:   Service-Oriented Architecture, Web services, Ecological niche modelling, IABIN-PTN.

Information systems for biodiversity require information distributed in different data sources and the challenges are to combine data to obtain answers for most common ecological problems. Ecological niche modelling is a technique widely adopted by ecologists and experts in the area, applied to ecological maintanance, conservation and mapping, and several other studies involving species distribution. Occurrence species points are input data for ecological niche modelling. IABIN is a Web-based network designed to provide an infrastructure for biodiversity data exchanges in the Western Hemisphere. IABIN aims to coordinate and promote technical colaboration among the members. The network may be used to obtain, share and apply biodiversity information in order to conserve natural resources and to improve education and sustainable development. IABIN is organized in thematic areas. IABIN-PTN (Pollinators Thematic Network) is a data repository containing species data related to pollinators, required for many agricultural and ecological purposes. IABIN-PTN represents an important data source for ecological niche modelling and their integration opens many possibilities for researchers. This work studies and details both ecological niche modelling and IABIN-PTN systems so as to provide their integration, based on Web services. Each business component required for the integration is presented, detailing the middleware technology and a solution for its implementation. Results are relevant because pollinators are species whose behaviour brings a lot of information about the situation of biodiversity around them. In addition, the solution presented here may be reused to integrate other similar data sources for ecological niche modelling systems using Web services.

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