The impact of invasive species is not limited to the loss of biodiversity; it also represents significant threats to agriculture on a global scale.The Japanese beetle Popillia japonica (native to Japan but an invasive agricultural pest in North America) recently occurred in the Po plain (Italy), one of the most cultivated areas in southern Europe.T
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The topic of data integration from external data sources or independent IT-systems has received increasing attention recently in IT departments as well as at management level, in particular concerning data integration in federated database systems.An example of the latter are commercial research information systems (RIS), which regularly import, cl