Projects tagged ‘ecology’ and ‘science’

The Ecological Metadata Language (EML) project is an open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing scientific data relevant to the ... [More] ecological discipline. These data often consist of observational data on the distribution and abundance of organisms, the processes that control these systems, and the biotic and abiotic environment in which the organisms are embedded. The project is completely comprised of voluntary project members who donate their time and experience in order to advance information management for ecology. [Less]

Daisy is a mechanistic simulation model of the physical and biological processes in an agricultural field. It traces the fate of water, energy, carbon, nitrogen, and pesticides, both above and below ... [More] ground. The model is able to predict production, environmental impact in the form of leaching, and change in soil (carbon) quality over time. Another common use is as an upper boundary for a groundwater model. [Less]

This is a fork of the Global Extinction Awareness Program's ecosystem simulation software. This one of several models designed to look at Human survival over the next 50 years. The source-code will be uploaded here soon. Watch this space ...