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| | National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives |
 | | "The new Lifemapper screensaver runs on Windows PCs [Win98 SE and later], and by donating their spare cycles people are directly helping to assemble a powerful, predictive digital library of Earth's biological diversity," said Jim Beach, assistant director for Informatics at the Biodiversity Research Center of the University of Kansas. |
 | | For example, using Lifemapper's predictions of animal and plant distributions, researchers will be able to model and simulate the spread of emerging diseases, plant and animal pests, or invasive species of plants and animals, as well as their effects on natural resources, agricultural crops, and human populations. |
 | | Once the set of rules is obtained, Lifemapper then identifies the regions on the map that match the rules in the mathematical model, that is, that match the preferred environment for the species. |
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