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Database management system
A Database Management System (DBMS) is a set of computer programs that controls the creation, maintenance, and the use of the database in a computer platform or of an organization and its end users. It allows organizations to place control of...
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Macroecology
Macroecology is the subfield of ecology that deals with the study of relationships between organisms and their environment at large spatial scales to characterise and explain statistical patterns of abundance, distribution and diversity. The term...
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Ant
Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae (pronounced /fɔrˈmɪsəˌdiː/), and along with the related wasps and bees, they belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130...
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems. The biodiversity found on Earth today consists of many millions of...
Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of biodiversity over space and time. It aims to reveal where organisms live, and at what abundance.
Biogeography does more than ask Which species? and Where. It also asks Why? and what is sometimes more...
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Global Ant Community Database
In 2005, Rob Dunn, J. P. Lessard, Matt Fitzpatrick, Nate Sanders and Ed Laurent began the North American Ant Database with the goal of understanding patterns of diversity and distribution in North American ants. We have now broadened...
