ICEI 2018 : 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics- Translating Ecological Data into Knowledge and Decisions in a Rapidly Changing World

Content

• Why Bayesian inference?

  Arhonditsis, George

• Whip: Human and machine-readable specifications for data

  Stijn Van Hoey; Peter Desmet

• What male humpback whale song chorusing can and cannot tell us about their ecology: strengths and limitations of passive acoustic monitoring of a vocally active baleen whale

  Kügler, Anke; Lammers, Marc

• What is a prior and how to derive one?

  Qian, Song S.

• What controls global fire? Evaluating emergent relationships in satellite observations and global vegetation models using machine learning

  Forkel, Matthias; Harrison, Sandy P.; Andela, Niels; Lasslop, Gitta; van Marle, Margreet; Dorigo, Wouter; Forrest, Matthew; Hantson, Stijn; Heil, Angelika; Li, Fang; Mangeon, Stephane; Melton, Joe; Yue, Chao; Arneth, Almut

• Variability in community productivity: mediation by vegetation traits

  Polley, H. Wayne; Wilsey, Brian J.

• Using multi-temporal RapidEye remote sensing data to map semi-natural grassland communities

  Raab, Christoph; Stroh, Hans Georg; Tonn, Bettina; Meißner, Marcus; Rohwer, Nina; Balkenhol, Niko; Isselstein, Johannes

• Using BEXIS 2 as efficient research data management system for the ATTO research project

  Guderle, Marcus; Lavrič, Jošt V.; Schöne, David; Trumbore, Susan

• Unfolding existing Data Publication Practice in Research Data Workflows in the Biological and Environmental Sciences – First Results from a Survey

  Löffler, Felicitas; Astor, Tina; Müller-Birn, Claudia

• Understanding the relationship between soundscape and landscape features in a Tropical Andean environment, Colombia

  Sanchez-Giraldo, Camilo; Cano, Estefany; Gomez, William E.; Duque, Diana C.; Isaza, Claudia; Bedoya, Carol; Daza, Juan M.

• Uncertainty assessment of climate and land use changes scenarios for the Millbrook catchment - reservoir system simulated by the SWAT-SALMO

  Nguyen, Hanh Hong; Recknagel, Friedrich; Meyer, Wayne

• TrIAS : Publishing and analysing biodiversity data rapidly, repeatably and FAIR-ly for agile policy relevant results

  Groom, Quentin; Vanderhoeven, Sonia; Reyserhove, Lien; Oldoni, Damiano; Adriaens, Tim; Desmet, Peter

• Tracking swimming Lefua echigonia to assess the impact of crayfish introduction

  Fukuda, Shinji; Tuhtan, Jeffrey

• Towards understanding the effects of informal harvesting of Sand Forest in Maputaland, South Africa

  Nel, Ryan; Mearns, Kevin; Jordaan, Maarten

• Towards the Automatic Extraction of Plant Traits from Textual Descriptions

  Dagtekin, Onatkut; Ulate, William; Batista-Navarro, Riza

• Towards structured biodiversity data

  Pereira, Henrique

• Towards Semantic Data Management in LifeWatch Italy: the Phytoplankton Study Case

  Fiore, Nicola; Bergami, Caterina; Carrubba, Carla; Oggioni, Alessandro; Rosati, Ilaria; Stanca, Elena; Tagliolato, Paolo

• Towards Interoperability for Observed Parameters: Position Statement of an Emerging Working Group

  Magagna, Barbara; Stocker, Markus; Diepenbroek, Michael

• Towards FAIR data within the Biodiversity Exploratories

  Ostrowski, Andreas; Fürstenau, Cornelia; Petzold, Eleonora; Zander, Franziska; König-Ries, Birgitta

• Towards automatic identification of elephants in the wild

  Körschens, Matthias; Barz, Björn; Denzler, Joachim

• Towards an Interactive Approach for Ontology Recommendation and Reuse

  Abdelreheim, Marwa; Klan, Friederike; Soliman, Taysir

• Towards an EBV Analyzer based on VAT

  Beilschmidt, Christian; Drönner, Johannes; Fernández, Néstor; Langer, Christian; Mattig, Michael; Seeger, Bernhard

• Towards a harmonization of distributed trait datasets

  Schneider, Florian D.; Jochum, Malte; Le Provost, Gaëtane; Ostrowski, Andreas; Penone, Caterina; Simons, Nadja K.

• The TRY Database System

  Boenisch, Gerhard; Kattge, Jens; Wirth, Christian

• The Netherlands Biodiversity Data Services and the R package nbaR: Automated workflows for biodiversity data analysis

  Hannes Hettling; Maarten Schermer; Rutger Vos; Daphne Duin

• The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy - an integrated software environment for biodiversity research data management

  Güntsch, Anton; Müller, Andreas; Plitzner, Patrick; Henning,Tilo; Kilian, Norbert; Fichtmüller, David; Gleisberg, Maren; Karam, Naouel; Müller-Birn, Claudia; Berendsohn, Walter G.

• The Diversity of Heath Flowering Phenology– Revealing Fine Scale Patterns of Heterogeneity by High Resolution Drone Cameras

  Neumann, Carsten; Behling, Robert; Itzerott, Sibylle; Weiss, Gabriele; Wichmann, Matthias; Müller, Jörg

• Testing the strengths of relationships between otter populations, fish and macroinvertebrate communities as well as habitat conditions across three Korean rivers by inferential modelling based on the hybrid evolutionary algorithm HEA

  Hong, Sungwon; Recknagel, Friedrich; Chon, Tae-Soo; Joo, Gea-Jae

• Ten outcomes to improve informatics interoperability in cyber/e-Infrastructures for biodiversity and ecological sciences : (through the use case of Essential Biodiversity Variables)

  Hardisty, Alex

• Support of Forest Inventory Data Collection by Citizen Scientists

  Thiel, Christian; Klan, Friederike; Pathe, Carsten; Schmullius, Christiane; Baade, Jussi

• Supervised learning methods to predict species interactions based

  Stock, Michiel; Baets, Bernard de

• Statistically reinforced machine learning for nonlinear interactions of factors and hierarchically nested spatial patterns

  Ryo, Masahiro; Rillig, Matthias C.

• sPlot – the global vegetation-plot database

  Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Pillar, Valério D.; Bruelheide, Helge

• Specimen-GT tool: Ground Truth Annotation tool for herbarium Specimen images

  Bouaziz, Bassem; Ben Ali, Rochdi; Trikki, Abdelaziz; Gaikwad, Jitendra

• SPARROW Applications Using Bayesian Inference Techniques

  Neumann, Alex; Arhonditsis, George

• sMon - Trend analysis of German biodiversity data

  Bonn, Aletta; Eichenberg, David; Bruelheide, Helge; Jansen, Florian; Winter, Marten

• Showcase: Biodiversity Exploratories Information System Report of our current stage of migration to the new BEXIS2 instance

  Ostrowski, Andreas; Petzold, Eleonora; Schindler, Sirko

• SCOPE model inversion for Sentinel-3 data retrieval

  Prikaziuk, Egor; Tol, Christiaan van der

• Research data management with BEXIS 2 – An overview and introduction to the special session

  Gerlach, Roman; Schöne, David; Chamanara, Javad; Navabpour, Nafiseh; Thiel, Sven; Hohmuth, Martin

• Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design for the Arctic

  Hoffman, Forrest M.; Kumar, Jitendra; Hargrove, William W.; Pallandt, Martijn; Goeckedei, Mathias

• Remote sensing for the observation of senescence in Conference pear trees

  Paladini, Laura; Delalieux, Stephanie; Tits, Laurent; Somers, Ben

• Remote sensing based estimation of forest biophysical variables using machine learning algorithm

  Srinet, Ritika; Nandy, Subrata; Patel, N. R.

• Refined Methodology for Accurately Detecting Objects from Digitized Herbarium Specimens

  Triki, Abdelaziz; Bouaziz, Bassem; Gaikwad, Jitendra

• Reconstruction and Recognition of Spatial Patterns from Sparse Data in the Problem of Biological Invasion

  Petrovskaya, Natalia

• Query Processing in Ontology Based Data Access

  Askar, Majid; Algergawy, Alsayed; Soliman, Taysir; König-Ries, Birgitta; Sewisy, Adel

• Provenance-based Semantic Approach for the Reproducibility of Scientific Experiments

  Samuel, Sheeba; König-Ries, Birgitta

• Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics: translating ecological data into knowledge and decisions in a rapidly changing world: ICEI 2018

  Gaikwad, Jitendra; König-Ries, Birgitta; Recknagel, Friedrich

• Plant functional groups for carbon and nitrogen cycle modelling and diversity estimation in boreal forest ecosystems

  Khanina, Larisa; Bobrovsky, Maxim; Smirnov, Vadim; Lukina, Natalia; Romanov, Michael

• PlanktonID – Combining deep learning, in situ imaging and citizen science to resolve the distribution of zooplanktonin major upwelling regions

  Kiko, Rainer; Christiansen, Svenja; Schröder, Simon-Martin; Koch, Reinhard; Stemmann, Lars

• Phenological diversity is linked to the diversity of functional traits in alpine grasslands

  Filippa, Gianluca; Cremonese, Edoardo; Galvagno, Marta; Migliavacca, Mirco; Römermann, Christine; Bucher, Solveig Franziska; Musavi, Talie Sadat

• Performance evaluation and hyperparameter tuning of statistical and machine-learning models using spatial data

  Schratz, Patrick; Muenchow, Jannes; Richter, Jakob; Iturritxa, Eugenia; Brenning, Alexander

• Overall and site-specific response of the macroinvertebrate community of Swan Coastal Plain Wetlands (West Australia) to water quality gradients revealed by GF and HEA

  Sultana, Jawairia; Recknagel, Friedrich; Davis, Jennifer A.; Chessman, Bruce C.

• Optimization of video monitoring of fish for reef assessment and management

  Bruneel, Stijn; Schoeters, Amber; Bermudez, Rafael; Goethals, Peter

• Nutrient induced changes in Sun-Induced Fluorescence emission in a Mediterranean grassland

  Martini, David; Pacheco-Labrador, Javier; Perez-Priego, Oscar; van der Tol, Christiaan; El Madany, Tarek; Julitta, Tommaso; Rossini, Micol; Gitelson, Anatoly; Reichstein, Markus; Migliavacca, Mirco

• Nutrient addition affects leaf N-P scaling relationship in Arabidopsis thaliana

  Yan, Zhengbing; Han, Wenxuan; Tian, Di; Fang, Jingyun

• Noise robust 2D bird localization via sound using microphone arrays

  Gabriel, Daniel; Kojima, Ryosuke; Hoshiba, Kotaro; Itoyama, Katsutoshi; Nishida, Kenji; Kazuhiro, Nakadai

• Nocturnal bird migration on the Baltic Sea coast

  Pamuła, Hanna; Kłaczyński, Maciej

• NAIRA a tool to automatic mammals genera identification in Camera Trapping Pictures

  Isaza, Claudia; Pulido, Luis; Diaz-Pulido, Angelica

• moveStore: an extensible cloud-based framework for applications dealing with movement data

  Naimi, Babak; Safi, Kamran

• Monitoring the spread of invasive plant species in Germany – how many species can we possibly detect by remote sensing and what data do we need?

  Skowronek, Sandra; Stenzel, Stefanie; Feilhauer, Hannes

• Modelling urban bird breeding ranges with remotely sensed heterogeneity in plant traits using a random forest

  Wellmann, Thilo; Lausch, Angela; Scheuerl, Sebastian; Haase, Dagmar

• Modeling Green Peach Aphid populations exposed to elicitors inducing plant resistance on peach

  Lanzoni, Alberto; Camastra, Francesco; Ciaramella, Angelo; Staiano, Antonino; Burgio, Giovanni

• Mobile app and platform development in citizen science

  Sturm, Ulrike

• Minimum Information Standards for Essential Biodiversity Variables

  Fernández, Néstor; Kissling, W. Daniel; Guralnick, Robert

• Mapping of invasive plant species with Sentinel-1 and -2 data calibrated with UAV-based training data

  Kattenborn, Teja; Lopatin, Javier; Förster, Michael; Fassnacht, Fabian

• Managing and publishing fungal community barcoding data by use of the process-oriented schema MOD-CO and a GFBio data publication pipeline

  Harjes, Janno; Triebel, Dagmar; Weibulat, Tanja; Link, Anton; Rambold, Gerhard

• Long-term ecoacoustic monitoring of a pristine coral reef: when data-intensive ecology responds to management objectives

  Elise, Simon; Couëdel, Marion; Marinesque, Sophie; Bruggemann, Henrich

• Leveraging Cloud Computing and IoT to Improve Research Solutions for Ecological Modelling

  Santana, Fabiana

• Leaf Mass per Area of Wetland Vegetation under Water Stress Analyzed with Imaging Spectroscopy

  Feilhauer, Hannes; Schmid, Thomas; Faude, Ulrike; Sánchez-Carrillo, Salvador; Cirujano, Santos

• LakeBase Semantic Service

  Keil, Jan Martin

• Keeping the Human in the Loop: Towards Automatic Visual Monitoring in Biodiversity Research

  Denzler, Joachim; Käding, Christoph; Brust, Clemens-Alexander

• Investigating climate impacts in the Gulf of Mexico with Dynamic Bayesian Networts

  Trifonova, Neda; Karnauskas, Mandy; Kelble, Christopher

• Integration of near-surface and satellite observations for algal bloom detection

  Anstee, Janet M.; Jöhnk, Klaus; Ford, Phillip; Malthus, Tim; Botha, Elizabeth; Oostende, Marit van; Lehmann, Eric; Ho, Xavier; Gensemer, Stephen

• Integration and dissemination of aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem services data for case studies focusing on ecosystem-based management

  Wever, Aaike De; Schmidt-Kloiber, Astrid; Arevalo, Juan; Dunne, Declan; Barbosa, Ana Luisa; Martens, Koen; Campos, Alejandro Iglesias

• Integrating data and analysis: On bridging data publishers and computational environments

  Markus Stocker; Uwe Schindler; Robert Huber

• Integrating context-based recommendation with deep NN image classification for plant identification tasks

  Wittich, Hans Christian; Boho, David; Mäder, Patrick

• Insight into hydrochemistry: a multi-catchment comparison using Horizontal Visibility Graphs

  Klotzbücher, Eva; Lange, Holger; Sippel, Sebastian; Hauhs, Michael; Aufgebauer, Britta

• Information retrieval from marine soundscape by using machine learning-based source separation

  Lin, Tzu-Hao; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Tsao, Yu; Fujikura, Katsunori

• Inconstant exponents of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus

  Tian, Di; Yan, Zhengbing; Fang, Jingyun

• Improving acoustic monitoring of biodiversity using deep learning-based source separation algorithms

  Tuanmu, Mao-Ning; Lin, Tzu-Hao; Huang, Joe; Tsao, Yu; Lee, Chia-Yun

• Identification of the Green Infrastructure in Switzerland and its implementation at different scales

  Sanguet, Arthur; Honeck, Erica

• How to Search for Biological Data? A Comparison of User Interfaces in a Semantic Search

  Löffler, Felicitas; Klan, Friederike; König-Ries, Birgitta

• How are spectrally relevant plant traits distributed across plant functional gradients?

  Kattenborn, Teja; Schmidtlein, Sebastian

• Habitat-Net: Habitat interpretation using deep neural nets

  Vashishtha, Anand; Abrams, Jesse F.; Mohamed, Azlan; Wilting, Andreas; Mukhopadhyay, Anirban

• Green Infrastructures and Essential Variables Workflows towards SDG 15

  Honeck, Erica; Lehmann, Anthony; Rodila, Diana-Denisa; Giuliani, Gregory

• Extraction of terms highly associated with named rivers

  Rojas-García, Juan; Batista-Navarro, Riza; Faber, Pamela

• Extracting Trait Data from Digitized Herbarium Specimens Using Deep Convolutional Networks

  Younis, Sohaib; Schmidt, Marco; Weiland, Claus; Dressler, Stefan; Tautenhahn, Susanne; Kattge, Jens; Seeger, Bernhard; Hickler, Thomas; Hoehndorf, Robert

• Extracting granular information on habitats and reproductive conditions of Dipterocarps through pattern-based literature analysis

  Gabud, Roselyn; Batista-Navarro, Riza

• Extending the Environment Ontology with Text-mined Habitat Mentions

  Batista-Navarro, Riza; Laporte, Marie-Angelique; Regan, Michael; Ulate, William; Weiland, Claus

• Exploring environmental variables based on ecotopes derived by remote sensing

  Radoux, Julien; François, Brieuc; Maet, Thomas De; Vandersteen, Quentin; Khalil, Elie; Defourny, Pierre

• Evaluating explanations of land cover change using approximate Bayesian Computation

  Andrew, Lane; James, Millington; Simon, Miles

• Estimating Gross Primary Productivity in Crops with Satellite Data, Radiative Transfer Modeling and Machine Learning

  Wolanin, Aleksandra; Guanter, Luis; Camps-Valls, Gustau; Gómez-Chova, Luis; García, Gonzalo Mateo; Tol, Christiaan van der; Zhang, Yongguang

• Estimating Grassland Biomass - Potentials and Limitations of Point Cloud Analysis

  Moeckel, Thomas; Wachendorf, Michael

• Enhance BEXIS2: from pure data management to an information system

  Ostrowski, Andreas; Petzold, Eleonora

• Early indicators of high impact of an invasive ecosystem engineer on ecosystem functioning from leaf to landscape scale

  Große-Stoltenberg, André; Hellmann, Christine; Thiele, Jan; Werner, Christiane; Oldeland, Jens

• Development of a reef fish community evaluation system for the Galapagos islands

  Goethals, Peter; Raat, Heleen; Bruneel, Stijn; Bermudez, Rafael; Forio, Marie Anne Eurie

• Deep Learning Approach for Mapping Arctic Vegetation using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Fusion

  Kumar, Jitendra; Langford, Zachary L.; Hoffman, Forrest M.

• Data Visualization: a new module for BEXIS 2

  Navabpour, Nafiseh; Gerlach, Roman

• Data science for environmental health

  Lausch, Angela; Dietrich, Peter; Kirsten, Toralf; Knapp, Sonja; Settele, Josef; Zacharias, Steffen; Bumberger, Jan

• Data lifecycle is not a cycle, but a plane!

  Chamanara, Javad; König-Ries, Birgitta

• Content-based Image Retrieval for Biodiversity: A Comparative Study

  Youssef, Nora; Algergawy, Alsayed; Moawad , Ibrahim F.; M. EL-Horbaty, EL-Sayed; Elgohary, Rania

• Content Description of Very-long-duration Recordings of the Environment

  Towsey, Michael; Roelofs, Aniek; Phillips, Yvonne; Truskinger, Anthony; Roe, Paul

• Connectivity and Synchronisation of Lake Ecosystems in Space and Time - CONNECT

  Berger, Stella A.; Wollrab, Sabine; Nejstgaard, Jens C; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Singer, Gabriel; Hölker, Franz; Jechow, Andreas; Fischer, Jürgen; Ruhtz, Thomas; Gege, Peter; Sachs, Torsten; Labrenz, Matthias; Lischeid, Gunnar; Röttgers, Hanns Rüdiger; Schneider, Thomas

• Computer vision applications using multispectral UAS imagery: comparing pixel and object-based methods for automatic classification of river landscapes

  Tuhtan, Jeffrey A.; Thumser, Philipp; Haas, Christian

• Citizen sciences in phenology

  Pietzsch, Saskia; Hübner, Thomas; Schulemann-Maier, Gaby

• Citizen science and science-policy interface: Towards sustainable forest managements

  Kohsaka, Ryo; Kajima, Shuichiro; Uchiyama, Yuta

• Challenges and opportunities of Earth observation for the prediction of water quality in inland waters

  Jöhnk, Klaus; Anstee, Janet M.

• Biophysical modelling of risks and feedbacks from forest fires: the role of plant traits

  Zylstra, Philip

• Biodiversity implications of international trade: comparison of threatened species from alternative electricity production with natural gas or concentrated solar power

  Rodríguez-Serrano, Irene; Caldés, Natàlia; Lechón, Yolanda

• Beyond Data and Quality – Unleashing the Value of Citizen Contributions

  Klan, Friederike

• Beyond Allopatric Speciation: Testing for Genetic Homogeneity in Duttaphrynus melanostictus in Relation to Human- induced Dispersal

  Othman, Siti N.; Chen, Yi-Huey; Andersen, Desiree; Chuang, Ming-Feng; Jang,Yikweon; Borzée, Amaël

• BBN models as trade-off tools for ecosystem services

  Forio, Marie Anne Eurie; Ryckebusch, Helena; Echelpoel, Wout Van; Goethals, Peter

• Automating the integration and accessibility of diverse geospatial data cubes

  Savoy, Heathe; Peters, Debra

• Automating biological monitoring on the Northern Andes of South America: combining biology and machine learning for conservation

  Daza, Juan M.; Isaza, Claudia; Bedoya, Carol; Cano, Estefany; Duque, Diana C.; Gomez, William E.; Sanchez-Giraldo, Camilo

• Automated recognition of people and identfication of animal species in camera trap images

  Hoebeke, Laura; Stock, Michiel; Van Hoey, Stijn; Casaer, Jim; Baets, Bernard de

• Automated and efficient workflow for large airborne remote sensing vegetation mapping and research of Natura 2000 habitats

  Kania, Adam; Kopeć, Dominik; Niedzielko, Jan; Sławik, Łukasz

• AUREAS: a tool for recognition of anuran vocalizations

  Gómez, William; Isaza, Claudia; Gómez, Sergio; Daza, Juan; Bedoya, Carol

• Assessment of permanent grasslands in Latvia using spectral remote sensing techniques

  Jakovels, Dainis; Brauns, Agris; Filipovs, Jevgenijs; Taskovs, Juris; Abaja, Ruta

• Assessing biodiversity from space: An example from the diverse tropical mountain rainforests

  I. B.Wallis, Christine; Brandl, Roland; Farwig, Nina; Bendix, Jörg

• Articulating citizen science, semi-automatic identification and free web services for long-term acoustic monitoring: examples from France and UK

  Bas, Yves; Newson, Stuart; Barré, Kévin; Julien, Jean-François; Kerbiriou, Christian

• Analyzing the effect of armed conflict, agriculture and fire on the movement and migratory behaviour of white eared kob and Roan antelope in the Boma-Gambella landscape of Ethiopia and South Sudan

  Abera, Kassahun; Bekele, Afework

• An Ontology-based Reference Process to Provide Interoperability and Foster Database Integration for Biodiversity Data

  Santana, Fabiana; Scheunemann, Silvia; Brandão, Anarosa A.F.; Saraiva, Antonio

• Alpine forest biodiversity estimated from the space: testing the Spectral Variation Hypothesis comparing Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 using a multi-temporal Rao Q index

  Torresani, Michele; Rocchini, Duccio; Sonnenschein, Ruth; Zebisch, Marc; Tonon, Giustino

• Acoustic sensor networks and machine learning: scalable ecological data to advance evidence-based conservation

  McKown, Matthew; Klein, David

• A semantic big biodiversity data integration tool

  Soliman, Taysir; Algergawy, Alsayed; König-Ries, Birgitta; Askar, Majid; Abdelreheim, Marwa

• A mixed model approach to modelling global habitat suitability and invasion risk of the American bullfrog

  Andersen, Desiree; Jang, Yikweon

• A method for automatic creation of a vegetation map using high-resolution aerial photographs of unmanned aerial vehicles

  Denda, Masatoshi; Yoshioka, Sayuri; Maeda, Yoshiko

• A machine learning approach to the assessment of the vulnerability of Posidonia oceanica meadows

  Catucci, Elena; Scardi, Michele

• A flexible Diversity Workbench tool to publish biodiversity data from SQL database networks through platforms like GFBio

  Weiss, Markus; Weibulat, Tanja; Seifert, Stefan; Monje, Juan Carlos; Ruff, Marcel; Neubacher, Dieter; Reichert, Wolfgang; Triebel, Dagmar

• A constrained depth-resolved artificial neural network model of marine phytoplankton primary production

  Mattei, Francesco; Scardi, Michele