TY - JOUR T1 - A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities JF - BMC Ecology Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hardisty, Alex A1 - Roberts, Dave A1 - The Biodiversity Informatics Community KW - Biodiversity KW - Data sharing KW - Decadal vision KW - e-Infrastructure KW - Grand challenge KW - Informatics KW - Research infrastructure KW - Systems approaches AB - Biodiversity informatics plays a central enabling role in the research community's efforts to address scientific conservation and sustainability issues. Great strides have been made in the past decade establishing a framework for sharing data, where taxonomy and systematics has been perceived as the most prominent discipline involved. To some extent this is inevitable, given the use of species names as the pivot around which information is organised. To address the urgent questions around conservation, land-use, environmental change, sustainability, food security and ecosystem services that are facing Governments worldwide, we need to understand how the ecosystem works. So, we need a systems approach to understanding biodiversity that moves significantly beyond taxonomy and species observations. Such an approach needs to look at the whole system to address species interactions, both with their environment and with other species. VL - 13 SN - 1472-6785 UR - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/13/16/abstract IS - 1 ER -