Permaculture Database

[Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>]

> Does this adequately summarize this idea?:
>
> Plant or guild records can be associated with an XY coordinate  
> which is
> compared  to raster climate data to provide numerical 'location'
> attributes describing environmental conditions that can be aggregated
> between multiple records.
I'd go for:

Organism records can be associated with an XY coordinate which is
compared  to raster climate data to provide numerical location-based
attributes describing environmental conditions. These attributes can  
be used to
model the environmental requirements of a species and provide an  
index indicating
the suitability of a species for a specific location.

See also:
http://www.worldclim.org/
http://www.calacademy.org/research/cbri/californias/ 
Gambelia_wislizenii.html -> 'Predict this species distribution'
http://www.gbif.org/


Cheers,
Bear