PHYLOHGEO-WS: VISUALIZATION AND DATA EXPLORATION OF COMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY IN A PHYLOGENETIC-GEOSPATIAL CONTEXT

The biodiversity information is now available from different sources (genetic, direct observation, fromvideo or audio traps) using different mode of sampling: systematic survey from environmental agency or Long -Term Ecological Research station, random survey from citizen science platforms, or episodic survey linked tosingle research initiative (Barcode of Life, Tara Oceans, ...). The Global Biodiversity Information Facilitybuilt tools to explore the biodiversity records species by species. However, it does not provide tools to compareand explore community biodiversity of given set of areas within a sampling strategy. We present here adeployment of a pilot service to explore community biodiversity, taking in account the sampling strategy. Theservice is based on an implementation of phylogenetic diversity algorithm previously presented, PhyloH, whichworks within an environment of geospatial tools that modifying input and output allows a correct parsing ofalpha (within locations), beta (between locations), gamma (across location) phylogenetic diversity taking inaccount sampling strategy. To allow a better integration in the infrastructure, input data follows file standardfor biodiversity observation (Darwin Core Archive CSV), phylogenetic information (newick format) and OGCstandard (shapefile). The service backend was deployed as pilot within the ReCaS-Bari farm, striving forportability of the service (making use of Docker to define environment and github as code repository) and formodularity in design among core algorithm code, backend and frontend service system to facilitate codesmaintenance of the different part of the service.