Increased Functionality and Accessibility of the ETE Database

陆地生态系统演变计算机数据库 旨在对古生物学进行广泛的比较， 陆地生态系统及其动植物的古生态学 社区. 特别是，对该项目的研究兴趣 重点是对各个地区进行详细的比较， 古群落结构的基础，古植被， 古环境，以及生物学中的追踪模式 陆地生态系统结构变化 时间 这些研究需要合成大量的 目前分散在大量文献中的信息， 躺在博物馆收藏未出版，很难 利用现有的信息资源， 古生物学 目前的奖励将支持购买新的 硬件和现有软件的修改。 具体 目标是将项目迁移到更标准的UNIX版本 在现代化的高性能工作站上运行， 图形用户界面与X Windows兼容 标准 这将立即提高性能， 数据库当前所在站点的功能 编译和使用（史密森尼和UCSB）。 它还将允许 多个用户访问数据库， 远程计算机

The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems computerized Database is designed to allow broad-scale comparisons of the paleobiology and paleoecology of terrestrial ecosystems and their plant and animal communities. In particular, research interest in this project focuses on making detailed comparisons on a locality-by-locality basis of paleocommunity structure, paleovegetation, and paleoenvironments, and on tracing patterns in biological structural change in terrestrial ecosystems throughout geologic time. Such studies require the synthesis of large amounts of information currently scattered throughout a vast literature or lying unpublished in museum collections, and are difficult to undertake using the available information resources within paleontology. The current award will support the purchase of new hardware and modifications in existing software. The specific goal is to migrate the project to a more standard version of UNIX running on a modern, high-performance workstation and to re-write the Graphical User Interface to be compatible with X Windows standards. This will immediately allow increased performance and functionality at sites were the database is currently being compiled and used (the Smithsonian and UCSB). It will also allow access to the database by multiple users on a wide variety of remote computers.