Ecological informatics: overview

Ecological informatics (ecoinformatics) is an interdisciplinary framework for the management, analysis, and synthesis of ecological data by advanced computational technology. Management of ecological data aims at facilitating data standardization, retrieval, and sharing by means of metadata and object-oriented programming. Analysis and synthesis of ecological data target elucidating principles of information processing, structuring, and functioning of ecosystems, and forecasting of ecosystem behaviors by means of bioinspired computation and hybrid models.F. Recknage