Visualization and data exploration of Community Biodiversity in a phylo-geospatial context

The study of biodiversity requires the ability to explores a plurality of genomic and/or observational data under a geospatial, phylogenetic and temporal frameworks. Diversity expressed as the exponential of Shannon Entropy the selected measure unit for this exploration. Building on Chao et al. 2010 entropy was generalized to take in account that entity are differently different following a rooted phylogenetic structure and the contribution to alpha and beta diversity of each node was estimated (Sandionigi et al. 2014). Alpha and Beta diversity contribution was parsed also by sampling locations and exposed in a GEO compliant web services (WPS 1.0 ) that expose GEO compliant file format. The tool presented is a synthesis from previous work on biodiversity analysis services in FP7 project BioVeL by CNR-ITB, IBBE and INFN and word done in the Group of Earth Observation done by CNR-ISSIA and algorithm development by CNR-ITB and ZooPlant lab.