An ontology for describing and synthesizing ecological observation data

Joshua Madina,e,⁎, Shawn Bowersb, Mark Schildhauera, Sergeui Krivovc, Deana Penningtond, Ferdinando Villac aNational Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA bGenome Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA cGund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia