Ecostations Data Access Monitor: Classification of Invasive Species

With the goal of understanding and modeling ecosystems, we are examining characteristics of invasive species, which have a large impact in ecosystems and on other species.

We want to develop a data driven method of identifying invasive species by identifying general characteristics that are correlated with invasive species. In addition, we propose a clustering method based on these characteristics to simplify the manual classification process of invasive species.

We have analyzed a dataset of Pacific plants (PIER) and developed a webtool to analyze user input data.

To get started with the web app, check out our Getting Started page on the wiki.

This project originated at a meeting with Neil Davies (Moorea IDEA, BIDS), Jorrit Poelen (GloBI) and Charlotte Cabasse (BIDS) at BIDS on Aug 5, 2015.