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...apply knowledge representation and Semantic Web technologies to problems in discovering and integrating ecological data and data analysis techniques. These technologies rely on ontologies that appropriately capture and encode scientific knowledge from the domains of interest.

the two major uses of ontologies are accessing and analyzing ecologically important information. The first activity uses the ontologies to describe ecological and environmental data sets in sufficient detail to permit automation of the discovery of data sets relevant to addressing a particular scientific question. The second activity uses the ontologies to describe data analysis tools so that the semantic mediation system can assist in the selection of tools and creation of scientific workflows given semantic descriptions of the incoming data and/or the desired results.

Richard J. Williams, Neo Martinez and Jennifer Golbeck. Ontologies for ecoinformatics. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 237-242.

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A food web is a network with directed links (DirectedNetwork), where each node represents a set of organisms and each link represents a feeding interaction, in which biomass and therefore energy is transferred from some prey or otherwise classified organisms to the consumer organisms.

== transfer of mass/energy. where's information?