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Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2012, 2(2): 84-89
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Founding RGB ecology: The ecology of synthesis

Alessandro Ferrarini
Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Via G. Saragat 4, I-43100 Parma, Italy

Received 28 February 2012;Accepted 25 March 2012;Published online 5 June 2012
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Abstract
There is an arising need to interpret an amount of ecological information that is more and more available. It is not only the pursuit of an easy handling of a large amount of data, but above all the quest for a deep and multivariate interpretation of many sources of ecological info. To this aim, I introduce here RGB ecology as a new branch of ecology devoted to the cartographic synthesis of ecological information. RGB ecology has the following properties: (1) it can not be separated from GIS cartography; (2) it can compact ecological information along space and time; (3) it can create a decision space for management decisions; (4) it can go beyond the third dimension by using compressive statistical techniques. RGB ecology can also be an effective flanker of several branches of ecology, such as landscape ecology, conservation ecology, urban ecology, forest ecology and so forth.

Keywords ecological data compression;RGB composition;time dimension;time dimension;decision space;principal component analysis;GIS.

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