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    <pub:title><![CDATA[ETHAN: the Evolutionary Trees and Natural History Ontology]]></pub:title>
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    <pub:abstract><![CDATA[Large-scale ecological modeling and evolutionary studies often rely on
scoring taxon-level characteristics of a wide variety of organisms.
Compiling such data is laborious and may involve finding and
reformatting data tables in original literature, or personally
exchanging spreadsheets or ASCII files with researchers. Compiled
taxon-level data is beginning to be shared digitally and efforts to
support wide data sharing in ecology and evolution should make even
more compiled data available in forms useful to scientists. However,
retrieval, integration, transformation, and validation of shared data
in traditional archives remain difficult and largely manual
processes. Discovery of new insights from such data is therefore
delayed if it is even possible.  Our interest in natural history
information stems from our work on a suite of tools to support
invasive species biologists.  Though food web structure has been
recognized to play a role in the success or failure of potential
species invasions, and their impacts few ecosystems have been the
subjects of empirical food web studies. Thus response teams are
typically unable to get quick answers to questions like "what are
likely prey and predator species of the invader in the new
environment?" We have developed a food web constructor which currently
uses an algorithm relying on taxonomic or phylogenetic relationships
to model ecological interactions. Future algorithmic developments will
use similarity in life history, natural history, or behavior to inform
link predictions.
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    <pub:organization><![CDATA[Computer Science and Electrical Engineering]]></pub:organization>
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