SPARQL Micro-Services Demo

Biodiversity Data Integration

This page demonstrates the use of SPARQL micro-services [1][2] to integrate, within a single SPARQL query, information about a taxon from multiple biodiversity sources:

To test with another taxon, simply enter the taxon name (without authority) as parameter param in the page URL. The taxon must be present in TAXREF, hence it must have been inventoried in French territories. For instance enter Delphinus delphis or Aegolius acadicus (loading the page may take a few seconds).

The SPARQL results are transformed into HTML using the SPARQL Template Transformation Language [4]. The code of this demo is available at https://github.com/frmichel/sparql-micro-service/tree/master/demo.

Data gathered for Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas, 1776)

Occurrences retrieved from GBIF
Images from Flickr
social system
group living
diet includes
fish
trophic guild
molluscivore
developmental mode
precocial
migration
migratory
parental care
provisioning
trophic level
carnivore
sexual dimorphism
male larger
motility
actively mobile
parental care
protection
parental care
female provides care
diet includes
worms
diet includes
crustaceans
native range includes
Arctic Ocean
trophic guild
piscivore
native range includes
Pacific Ocean
body shape
bilaterally symmetric
trophic guild
invertivore
diet includes
mollusks
Heide-Jorgensen, Mads-Peter
Age and sex distributions in the catches of belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, in West Greenland and in western Russia. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde : im Auftrage der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V (2001).
Lockyer, Christina
Age and sex distributions in the catches of belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, in West Greenland and in western Russia. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde : im Auftrage der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Säugetierkunde e.V (2001).
Westdal, Kristin H
Behavioural Changes in Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) During a Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Attack in Southwest Hudson Bay. The Canadian field-naturalist (2017-03-29).
Subset of the RDF triples produced