BORBA, C. F. Computational strategies to support interoperability between models processed by species distribution modeling tools. 2017. 148 f. Thesis (Doctoral) -Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2017. The research area called Informatics for Biodiversity faces the challenge of meeting the demand for technology to support biodiversity conservation. Among the areas of ecology that benefit from technological resources, the modeling of species distribution is notable for

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... the number of tools and algorithms developed to researchers in this area. However, studies have shown that modeling has become more complex, as well as the need for improvements in the application of new techniques and computational solutions. The computational interoperability for biodiversity data, which includes models generated by modeling tools, is cited by authors and researchers in the field as a concern that demands studies, definition of best practices and computing solutions. Each topic that involves modeling such as algorithms, parameters, occurrence data, environmental layers, tools, techniques for the elaboration of models, standards of metadata and application profiles are objects of study of this dissertation. This thesis presents a computational strategy to support the interoperability between the models generated by the modeling tools of species distribution, through the use of metadata standards and the development of an application profile that supports this interoperability. Two case studies are presented with the objective of validating these strategies and we also present a computational architecture to support communities to develop of modeling tools to seek this interoperability between the data supplied and processed by them. The contributions of this work involve the provision of an application profile for the area of species distribution modeling, a software prototype to process the models generated by the modeling tools, the incentive and use of the digital objetct identification to make data available, and in addition to the process of research and validation of methodologies that were used to summarize the results of this research.