A quality assessment of the CFC-11 (CCl3F), CFC-12 (CCl2F2), HF, and SF6 products from limbviewing satellite instruments is provided by means of a detailed intercomparison. The climatologies in the form of monthly zonal mean time series are obtained from HALOE, MIPAS, ACE-FTS, and HIRDLS within the time period 1991–2010. The intercomparisons focus on the mean biases of the monthly and annual zo...

braconidae (hymenoptera) communities at high altitudes in alfalfa fields of kerman province (iran) were analyzed. the communities were sampled by sweep netting in 2014 and 2015. samples were taken from three altitudinal transects: 1900–2300 m, 2400–2700 m and 2800–3100 m. a total of 1773 braconid specimens belonging to seven subfamilies were collected. alpha, beta and gamma diversities were ana...

We monitored microbiological properties in two forest sites over a period of 17 years (1993-2010) within the International Cooperative Programme on Integrated Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Ecosystems (ICP IM). The two study sites were located in South Tyrol in the Italian Alps at altitudes of 1,737 m a.s.l. (subalpine site IT01) and 570 m a.s.l. (submontane site IT02). Soil samples wer...

The annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting has been operating for eight years; during this time, it has stimulated discussion about the role of ontologies and their associated technologies for structuring, sharing, analysing, and searching knowledge about biological systems. The format varies; usually, it has a mixture of talks and structured discussions such as panel sessions. It regularly draws a hund...

There is a strong need to map the OBO format to OWL and provide tools that enable end users to easily perform this translation. To fulfill this need, the National Center for Biomedical Ontology created the NCBO OBO to OWL mapping and a set of tools to perform the translations for the Protégé and OBO-Edit editors and for command line use. A group of OBO developers and OWL experts worked cooperat...

Climate change is among the most important global threats to biodiversity and mountain areas are supposed to be under especially high pressure. Although recent modelling studies suggest considerable future range contractions of montane species accompanied with increased extinction risk, data allowing to test actual population consequences of the observed climate changes and identifying traits a...

The eighth annual Bio-Ontologies meeting was held on 24th June at ISMB 2005 in Detroit. Its principle aim over the years has been to build a community forum that brings together biologists and computer scientists to discuss the development and use of ontologies within the domain of biology. During this time, it has aimed to stimulate discussion about the role of Ontologies and their associated ...