Tag Archives: ecology

Converting the Field Records of Early-20th Century Public Health Pioneer to Data

- July 18, 2023

Bonne-Wepster

Field notes of the early-20th century entomologist Johanna Bonne-Wepster have been digitized as part of the GigaByte vectors of human disease series

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The genome of a shape shifting butterfly

- May 10, 2017

: William H. Piel and Antónia Monteiro

A new genome sequence of the butterfly Bicyclus anynana helps understand a fascinating shapeshifting butterfly species that can modify its morphology in response to environmental clues.

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Jack Rabbits, Lizards and Squirrels, Oh My! Q&A with Taylor Noble

- September 29, 2016

Here is a Q&A with the first author of our first camera trap dataset published in our Data-Intensive Ecology series. Taylor shares his thoughts on why he’s so interested in the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the usefulness of camera traps in ecology, as well as challenges with big data.

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Big Data Challenges and Solutions in Contemporary Ecology: A Guest Blog by Chris Lortie

- April 26, 2016

Chris Lortie

Chris Lortie is an integrative ecologist (Santa Barbara, USA and York University, Canada)  and is a co-Guest Editor of our Data-Intensive Ecology series. Here, he shares his views on a few challenges and solutions in contemporary ecology as the field moves into the big-data era.

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We Wish You a GigaChristmas: A 2015 Wrap-Up

- December 14, 2015

An end-of-year Christmassy 2015 wrap-up from Nicole Nogoy on everything that has happened to GigaScience in the last year

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Great Lakes of Data: More with Pat Soranno on the challenges of data-integration in ecology

- July 3, 2015

A follow-up from Pat Soranno, sharing her thoughts on reproducible ecology and the challenges it presents.

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