What is Ecological Informatics?
Although ecological and environmental concerns about keeping our earth livable and sustainable are growing, the interpretation of ecosystems is still a challenging task as ecological data have the nature of complexity and nonlinearity. In recent years, however, numerous computational and statistical approaches have been intensively made, leading to the devleopment of Ecological Informatics.
Ecological Informatics is defined as an interdisciplinary framework which promotes the use of advanced computational technologies for elucidating the principles of information processing at and between all levels of complexity of ecosystems - from genes to ecological networks. Ecological Informatics also aid the transparent decision-making in relation to critical ecological issues such as sustainability, biodiversity and the problem of global warming. Distinctive features of ecological informatics include data integration across ecosystem categories and levels of complexity, inference from data patterns to ecological processes, and adaptive simulation and prediction of ecosystems (see http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/ISEI/).
Our laboratory focuses on following research subjects:
Ecological
health assessment and management
Behavioral
studies of organisms (responding to disturbances)
Communities
and their environment
The effects
of global changes on biodiversity and ecosystems
Computational and quantitative approaches
in ecology
Forest Insect Ecology
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