The range of technologies currently used in biodiversity conservation is staggering, with
innovative uses often adopted from other disciplines and being trialed in the field. We …

Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

New scientific understanding is catalyzed by novel technologies that enhance measurement
precision, resolution or type, and that provide new tools to test and develop theory. Over the …

Robotic systems are increasingly being utilized as fundamental data-gathering tools by
scientists, allowing new perspectives and a greater understanding of the planet and its …

Chemical sensors allow for continuous detection and analysis of underexplored molecules
in the human body and the surroundings and have promising applications in human …

Traditionally, animal species diversity and abundance is assessed using a variety of
methods that are generally costly, limited in space and time, and most importantly, they …

Ecology is evolving rapidly and increasingly changing into a more open, accountable,
interdisciplinary, collaborative and data-intensive science. Discovering, integrating and …

Lake Analyzer is a numerical code coupled with supporting visualization tools for
determining indices of mixing and stratification that are critical to the biogeochemical cycles …

Growing threats to biodiversity demand timely, detailed information on species occurrence,
diversity and abundance at large scales. Camera traps (CTs), combined with computer …

Understanding the genetic basis of species adaptation in the context of global change poses
one of the greatest challenges of this century. Although we have begun to understand the …