Webs on the Web: Internet Database, Analysis, and Visualization of Ecological Networks

该项目将建立一个描述生态网络营养结构和功能的食物网络互联网数据库，并结合各种工具，提高科学家和学生交流和分析有关网络信息的能力。数据库设计将可扩展到其他生态交互和网络类型。内容将侧重于有机体之间的营养相互作用，以及能够对网络动力学进行建模的生物能量参数。这些生物复杂性信息学活动服务于对与生物和非生物系统有关的网络理论感兴趣的用户。该项目涉及生态学、信息学、计算机科学和信息技术的跨学科合作。除了旧金山州立大学，圣达菲研究所和国家生态分析与合成中心也参与其中。更广泛的影响包括在少数族裔市中心的一所公立大学建立跨学科的跨部门合作，以及增加未被充分代表的少数族裔在生态学和计算机科学领域的参与。

This project will establish an Internet database of food web, which describe the trophic structure and function of ecological networks, combined with tools that will increase the ability of scientists and students to exchange and analyze information about the networks. The database design will be extensible to other ecological interactions and network types. The content will focus on trophic interactions among organisms and also bioenergetic parameters that enable the modeling of network dynamics. These biocomplexity informatics activities serve the user interested in network theory relating to biological and non-biological systems. The project involves an interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology, informatics, computer science and information technology. In addition to San Francisco State University, the Santa Fe Institute and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis are involved. Broader impacts include establishing an interdisciplinary interdepartmental collaboration at a minority inner-city public university and increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in ecology and computer science.