Life Sketches: Evidence-based analysis of trophic interactions across the tree of life from the biodiversity literature

该项目的目的是为生物多样性研究人员提供一种类似于文字草图的设施，但基于物种之间的分类和营养关系。使用基于证据的词典技术，并利用生物多样性数据的隐含分类结构，该项目将创建“生命草图”，为研究人员提供一个统计快照，了解某一特定物种在文献中如何、多频繁、何时何地出现，以及它与其他物种参与了何种营养相互作用。有了这样一个工具，研究人员将能够解决生物多样性科学中的关键问题，例如跨生命树的营养相互作用的演变，重点放在不同的地理和时间尺度上，大大增强的统计能力可能会挑战长期持有但并未得到充分验证的假说，这些假说描述了不相关生物随时间和地点共同多样化的关键过程。

The aim of this project is to provide biodiversity researchers with a facility analogous to word sketches, but based upon taxonomic and trophic relationships between species. Using evidence- based lexicographic techniques and exploiting the implicit taxonomic structure of the biodiversity data, the project will create 'life sketches', offering researchers a statistical snapshot of how, how often, when and where a particular species occurs in the literature, and what kinds of trophic interactions with other species it engages in. With such a tool, researchers will be able to address key questions in biodiversity sciences, such as the evolution of trophic interactions across the tree of life with focus on different geographic and time scales, with a much enhanced statistical power that may challenge long held but not robustly tested hypotheses describing key processes of the co- diversification of unrelated organisms through time and in place.