Ecoinformatics and Soil-Plant Formations

Abstract

As mentioned above, the field of ecoinformatics provides concepts, methods and standards in order to guide management and analysis of ecological data with particular emphasis on exploration of co-occurrences of organisms and their linkage to environmental conditions and taxon attributes (Boden et al. 1994; Dengler et al. 2011; Fang et al. 2001; Rastetter et al. 2003). This chapter reflects on the development of ecoinformatics and explores its importance for future global change research with special focus on vegetation-plot data. Vegetation covers including forests are the most impacted by the anthropogenic reconstruction and revision.