RUI: Expanding Forest Canopy Databases and Database Tools - Branching Out to Ecology

常青州立大学获得了一笔拨款，用于为新兴的生态森林冠层研究领域创建数据库工具。该项目将包括进一步开发Canopy数据库，并为其增加重要的数据和功能。它还将创建一个新的模块，用于增强森林生态的三维空间模型和结构多样性的操作定义，可用于测试关于结构-功能关系的假设。该项目通过提供适当的数据结构和存储库，在生态数据生成器中推广最佳数据实践。它还将提供先进的可视化工具，为K-12和公共政策教育提供信息，并使生态学家能够进行前所未有的分析。

Evergreen State College has been given a grant to create database tools for the emerging area of ecological forest canopy studies. The project will include further development of the Canopy Databank and significant additions of data and functionality to it. It will also create a new module for enhanced 3-D spatial models of forest ecology and operational definitions of structural diversity that can be used to test hypotheses about structure-function relationships. The project promotes best data practices among ecological data generators by providing an appropriate data structure and repository. It will also provide advanced visualization tools that will inform K-12 and public policy education as well as empowering ecologists to do analyses not before possible.