Thematic Services

LifeWatch ERIC tackles the constraints affecting biodiversity and ecosystem research, such as the pressing need for increasingly diverse data, larger and more advanced models, open data and open science clouds, making it possible to explore new frontiers in ecological science and support society in addressing planetary challenges.

This page makes it possible to thematically browse and access LifeWatch ERIC services.

Coordinate Reference Systems

Services enabling geographical analysis through the use of coordinate reference systems.
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Habitat Mapping

Services which provide information on habitat and biotope occurrence and characteristics.
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Ecological Responses to Climate Change

Toos and services on data curation, data analysis and modelling, to better understand ecological responses to climate change, describe scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning change under climate change.
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Semantics

Services enabling discovery and interoperability and providing core and domain ontologies, as well as vocabularies and domain-relevant reference lists.
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Data Management

Services designed to cover the entire data lifecycle, from acquisition to visualisation.
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Metagenomics

Services dedicated to DNA Metabarcoding analysis.
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Animal Movement and Biologging

Services designed to provide information on species distribution and coverage in different geographical areas.
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Environmental Monitoring

Services enabling environmental monitoring and the evaluation of ecosystem health.
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Modelling

Services which enable the derivation of future scenarios under multiple vectors of change.
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Taxonomy

Services which run taxonomic checks on scientific and common species names.
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Functional Traits

Services analysing species' functional traits to determine their effect on processes and responses to environmental factors.
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Biodiversity Observatory Automation

Services designed to monitor and detect biodiversity (from aerial observations to eDNA), from data collection design, data curation, and data exploration, including the use of AI to FARIfication of data to digital twins.
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Biogeography

Tools and services on data curation, data analysis and modelling to better understand biogeographical gradients in space and time and to model future changes in response to climate change or conservation strategies.
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