1. The LifeWebs project: A call for data describing plant-herbivore interaction networks
- Author
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Katerina Sam, Luciano Cagnolo, Vojtech Novotny, Tom M. Fayle, and Anna Humlova
- Subjects
Global and Planetary Change ,Herbivore ,Trophic Interaccion ,Ecology ,Computer science ,Ecology (disciplines) ,Food web ,Food Web ,Ecología ,Data science ,lcsh:Microbial ecology ,Ciencias Biológicas ,Trophic interaction ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,Order (business) ,lcsh:QH540-549.5 ,Biogeography Interactions ,lcsh:QR100-130 ,Biogeography of interactions ,lcsh:Ecology ,Herbivory ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 [https] ,CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Understanding global drivers of changes in species interacons is vital, both in terms of improving our knowledge of fundamental large-scale ecology, and in order to predict and protect against human-driven changes to ecosystems. Here we present the LifeWebs project, which aims to collate existing data on interacon networks in order to understand their large-scale paerns. Inially we will collate data relating to plant?herbivore interacons, and this arcle is a call for contributions. We outline the kinds of data in which we are interested, the procedure for making contribuons, and what contributors can expect in terms of co-authorship on subsequent papers and access to the database for conducting their own analyses. Fil: Fayle, Tom Maurice. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; República Checa Fil: Sam, Katerina. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; República Checa Fil: Humlova, Anna. University Of South Bohemia; República Checa Fil: Cagnolo, Luciano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal; Argentina
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- 2016