Ecological Informatics, Volume 5
Volume 5, Number 1, January 2010

Ben Leinfelder, Jing Tao, Duane Costa, Matthew B. Jones, Mark Servilla, Margaret O'Brien, Chad Burt: A metadata-driven approach to loading and querying heterogeneous scientific data. 3-8
Shawn Bowers, Joshua S. Madin, Mark P. Schildhauer: Owlifier: Creating OWL-DL ontologies from simple spreadsheet-based knowledge descriptions. 19-25
Raul Aguilar, Jerry Y. Pan, Corinna Gries, Inigo San Gil, Giri Palanisamy: A flexible online metadata editing and management system. 26-31
Helen Conover, Gregoire Berthiau, Mike Botts, H. Michael Goodman, Xiang Li, Yue Lu, Manil Maskey, Kathryn Regner, Bradley Zavodsky: Using sensor web protocols for environmental data acquisition and management. 32-41
Derik Barseghian, Ilkay Altintas, Matthew B. Jones, Daniel Crawl, Nathan Potter, James Gallagher, Peter Cornillon, Mark Schildhauer, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Parviez R. Hosseini: Workflows and extensions to the Kepler scientific workflow system to support environmental sensor data access and analysis. 42-50
John Porter, Chau-Chin Lin, David E. Smith, Sheng-Shan Lu: Ecological image databases: From the webcam to the researcher. 51-58
Tereza C. Giannini, Antonio M. Saraiva, Isabel Alves-dos-Santos: Ecological niche modeling and geographical distribution of pollinator and plants: A case study of Peponapis fervens (Smith, 1879) (Eucerini: Apidae) and Cucurbita species (Cucurbitaceae). 59-66
Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Teruhisa Komatsu, Kiyoshi Tanaka: Simulation of drifting seaweeds in East China Sea. 67-72
Volume 5, Number 2, March 2010
Janice L. Pappas: Phytoplankton assemblages, environmental influences and trophic status using canonical correspondence analysis, fuzzy relations, and linguistic translation. 79-88
Chan-Woo Lee, Ji-Deok Jang, Kwang-Seuk Jeong, Dong-Kyun Kim, Gea-Jae Joo: Patterning habitat preference of avifaunal assemblage on the Nakdong River estuary (South Korea) using self-organizing map. 89-96
Hong Li, Arthur Mynett, Ellis Penning, Hui Qi: Revealing spatial pattern dynamics in aquatic ecosystem modelling with Multi-Agent Systems in Lake Veluwe. 97-107
Fei Ye, Qiuwen Chen, Ruonan Li: Modelling the riparian vegetation evolution due to flow regulation of Lijiang River by unstructured cellular automata. 108-114
Weifeng Li, Rui Han, Qiuwen Chen, Shen Qu, Zhongni Cheng: Individual-based modelling of fish population dynamics in the river downstream under flow regulation. 115-123
Michael B. Ashcroft, John R. Gollan, Daniel P. Faith, Gareth A. Carter, Scott A. Lassau, Scott G. Ginn, Matthew W. Bulbert, Gerasimos Cassis: Using Generalised Dissimilarity Models and many small samples to improve the efficiency of regional and landscape scale invertebrate sampling. 124-132
Pieter Boets, Koen Lock, Marjolein Messiaen, Peter L. M. Goethals: Combining data-driven methods and lab studies to analyse the ecology of Dikerogammarus villosus. 133-139
Thu Huong Hoang, Koen Lock, Ans M. Mouton, Peter L. M. Goethals: Application of classification trees and support vector machines to model the presence of macroinvertebrates in rivers in Vietnam. 140-146
Argaw Ambelu, Koen Lock, Peter L. M. Goethals: Comparison of modelling techniques to predict macroinvertebrate community composition in rivers of Ethiopia. 147-152
Volume 5, Number 3, May 2010
Eric P. Kasten, Philip K. McKinley, Stuart H. Gage: Ensemble extraction for classification and detection of bird species. 153-166
Mats Björklund, S. Bergek, Esa Ranta, Veijo Kaitala: The effect of local population dynamics on patterns of isolation by distance. 167-172
Mats Björklund, G. Almqvist: Is it possible to infer the number of colonisation events from genetic data alone? 173-176
Liangju Zhao, Honglang Xiao, Guodong Cheng, Xiaohong Liu, Qiu Yang, Li Yin, Caizhi Li: Correlation between delta13C and delta15N in C4 and C3 plants of natural and artificial sand-binding microhabitats in the Tengger Desert of China. 177-186
Kristin Vanderbilt, David Blankman, Xuebing Guo, Honglin He, Chau-Chin Lin, Sheng-Shan Lu, Akiko Ogawa, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Herbert Schentz, Wen Su: A multilingual metadata catalog for the ILTER: Issues and approaches. 187-193
Jason W. Karl, Brian A. Maurer: Spatial dependence of predictions from image segmentation: A variogram-based method to determine appropriate scales for producing land-management information. 194-202
Quang Bao Le, Soo Jin Park, Paul L. G. Vlek: Land Use Dynamic Simulator (LUDAS): A multi-agent system model for simulating spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human-landscape system: 2. Scenario-based application for impact assessment of land-use policies. 203-221
Yanbin Hao, Yanfen Wang, Xurong Mei, Xiaoyong Cui, Xiaoqi Zhou, Xiangzhong Huang: The sensitivity of temperate steppe CO2 exchange to the quantity and timing of natural interannual rainfall. 222-228
Volume 5, Number 4, July 2010
Juan Carlos Nuño, Javier de Vicente, José Olarrea, Pilar López, Rafael Lahoz-Beltra: Evolutionary Daisyworld models: A new approach to studying complex adaptive systems. 231-240
Nariyuki Nakagiri, Yukio Sakisaka, Tatsuya Togashi, Satoru Morita, Kei-ichi Tainaka: Effects of habitat destruction in model ecosystems: Parity law depending on species richness. 241-247
Koen Hufkens, Guy Thoonen, Jeroen Vanden Borre, Paul Scheunders, Reinhart Ceulemans: Habitat reporting of a heathland site: Classification probabilities as additional information, a case study. 248-255
Daniela Stojanova, Pance Panov, Valentin Gjorgjioski, Andrej Kobler, Saso Dzeroski: Estimating vegetation height and canopy cover from remotely sensed data with machine learning. 256-266
V. Maccarrone: Determination of the upper boundary of a Posidonia meadow. 267-272
Christopher J. Williams, Christine M. Moffitt: Estimation of fish and wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests on pooled samples with varying pool sizes. 273-280
Hye Won Lee, Kon Joon Bhang, Seok Soon Park: Effective visualization for the spatiotemporal trend analysis of the water quality in the Nakdong River of Korea. 281-292
Kwang-Seuk Jeong, Dong-Gyun Hong, Myeoung-Seop Byeon, Jong-Chul Jeong, Han-Gook Kim, Dong-Kyun Kim, Gea-Jae Joo: Stream modification patterns in a river basin: Field survey and self-organizing map (SOM) application. 293-303
Bulent Tutmez, Zubeyde Hatipoglu: Comparing two data driven interpolation methods for modeling nitrate distribution in aquifer. 311-315
Volume 5, Number 5, September 2010
Ni-Bin Chang: Advances of ecological remote sensing under global change. 317
Duccio Rocchini, Niko Balkenhol, Gregory A. Carter, Giles M. Foody, Thomas W. Gillespie, Kate S. He, Salit Kark, Noam Levin, Kelly Lucas, Miska Luoto, Harini Nagendra, Jens Oldeland, Carlo Ricotta, Jane Southworth, Markus Neteler: Remotely sensed spectral heterogeneity as a proxy of species diversity: Recent advances and open challenges. 318-329
Yen-Ben Cheng, Elizabeth M. Middleton, Karl Fred Huemmrich, Qingyuan Zhang, Petya K. E. Campbell, Lawrence A. Corp, Andrew L. Russ, William P. Kustas: Utilizing in situ directional hyperspectral measurements to validate bio-indicator simulations for a corn crop canopy. 330-338

Zhihua Mao, Venetia Stuart, Delu Pan, Jianyu Chen, Fang Gong, Haiqing Huang, Qiankun Zhu: Effects of phytoplankton species composition on absorption spectra and modeled hyperspectral reflectance. 359-366
Jaeil Cho, Pat J.-F. Yeh, Yang-Won Lee, Hyungjun Kim, Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Wonsik Kim, Kyoichi Otsuki: A study on the relationship between Atlantic sea surface temperature and Amazonian greenness. 367-378
Venkata Ramana Lakkaraju, Xiaobing Zhou, Martha E. Apple, Al Cunningham, Laura M. Dobeck, Kadie Gullickson, Lee H. Spangler: Studying the vegetation response to simulated leakage of sequestered CO2 using spectral vegetation indices. 379-389
Daijiro Kaneko, Peng Yang, P. J.-F. Yeh, Toshiro Kumakura: Developing a photosynthetic sterility model to estimate CO2 fixation through the crop yield in Asia with the aid of MODIS data. 390-399
Mark T. Schnur, Hongjie Xie, Xianwei Wang: Estimating root zone soil moisture at distant sites using MODIS NDVI and EVI in a semi-arid region of southwestern USA. 400-409
Min Li, John J. Qu, Xianjun Hao: Investigating phenological changes using MODIS vegetation indices in deciduous broadleaf forest over continental U.S. during 2000-2008. 410-417
Yongqiang Liu, John Stanturf, Scott Goodrick: Wildfire potential evaluation during a drought event with a regional climate model and NDVI. 418-428
Chenghai Yang, James H. Everitt: Mapping three invasive weeds using airborne hyperspectral imagery. 429-439
Volume 5, Number 6, November 2010
Christian Kampichler, Ralf Wieland, Sophie Calmé, Holger Weissenberger, Stefan Arriaga-Weiss: Classification in conservation biology: A comparison of five machine-learning methods. 441-450
Ali Faisal, Frank Dondelinger, Dirk Husmeier, Colin M. Beale: Inferring species interaction networks from species abundance data: A comparative evaluation of various statistical and machine learning methods. 451-464
David W. Armitage, Holly K. Ober: A comparison of supervised learning techniques in the classification of bat echolocation calls. 465-473
R. A. Hauser-Davis, T. F. Oliveira, A. M. Silveira, T. B. Silva, R. L. Ziolli: Case study: Comparing the use of nonlinear discriminating analysis and Artificial Neural Networks in the classification of three fish species: acaras (Geophagus brasiliensis), tilapias (Tilapia rendalli) and mullets (Mugil liza). 474-478
David Rogers, Thomas McCann, Alan Cooper: Integrating paper-based habitat mapping with mobile electronic field recording procedures. 479-483
Mukul Sonwalkar, Li Fang, Donglian Sun: Use of NDVI dataset for a GIS based analysis: A sample study of TAR Creek superfund site. 484-491
Honglin He, Min Liu, Xiaomin Sun, Li Zhang, Yiqi Luo, Huiming Wang, Shijie Han, Xinquan Zhao, Peili Shi, Yanfen Wang, Zhu Ouyang, Guirui Yu: Uncertainty analysis of eddy flux measurements in typical ecosystems of ChinaFLUX. 492-502



