Introduction

MORPHO is a tool for data management by the ecologist.. The basic goal of development effort was to create an easy-to-use, cross-platform application for accessing and manipulating metadata and data (both locally and on remote servers). MORPHO is thus a client for a networked-based catalog of ecological data and the metadata describing this data. It is also a stand-alone application which can work with local data and metadata in the same way as server-based information.

The basic operations that can be carried out using MORPHO are:

Open architecture features include the following: