Journal of Functional and Environmental Botany
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 1

Biodiversity Informatics and Digitalizing the Biodiversity of India

  • Author:
  • Padmanabh Dwivedi1,, Prasann Kumar2
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Published Online: May 1, 2012
  • Page Number: 12 to 21

1Associate Professor, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, U.P., India

2PG Student, Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, U.P., India

*E-mail id: pdwivedi25@rediffmail.com

Abstract

India is blessed not only with rich biological diversity but also with the associated indigenous knowledge system of the same. The population burst, industrialization, urbanization, environmental pollution and global climate change are some of the factors that lead to the loss of biological resources. Biodiversity is the key to the functioning and sustenance of life forms in the ecosystem. Due to its importance, it becomes imperative to digitalize valuable biological resources that exist in India and its neighboring region.

Keywords

Bioinformatics, Biological resource, Complexity, Habitat