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, from video 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 to single research initiative (Barcode of Life, Tara Oceans, ...). The Global Biodiversity Information Facility built tools to explore the biodiversity records species by species. However, it does not provide tools to compare and explore community biodiversity of given set of areas within a sampling strategy. We present here a deployment of a pilot service to explore community biodiversity, taking in account the sampling strategy. The service is based on an implementation of phylogenetic diversity algorithm previously presented, PhyloH, which works within an environment of geospatial tools that modifying input and output allows a correct parsing of alpha (within locations), beta (between locations), gamma (across location) phylogenetic diversity taking in account sampling strategy. To allow a better integration in the infrastructure, input data follows file standard for biodiversity observation (Darwin Core Archive CSV), phylogenetic information (newick format) and OGC standard (shapefile). The service backend was deployed as pilot within the ReCaS-Bari farm, striving for portability of the service (making use of Docker to define environment and github as code repository) and for modularity in design among core algorithm code, backend and frontend service system to facilitate codes maintenance of the different part of the service.