Sustainable Biodiversity Databasing: International, Collaborative, Dynamic, Centralised

Costello, Mark J.; Horton, Tammy; Kroh, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2018.08.006

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“…To some degree this already happens through numerous international databases including GBIF, WoRMS, WRiMS, and the Encyclopaedia of Life. However, despite the value that these databases offer as expert-driven, collaborative, and centralised open-access sources of species occurrence data (Costello et al 2018), they can face challenges in ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date, and, importantly in the current context, georeferenced (Yesson et al 2007). These challenges are aggravated by the fact that direct funding for the maintenance of foundational databases such as these is often limited, requiring researchers to volunteer their time.…”

Section: Valuable Yet Problematic Databasesmentioning

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Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions

Robinson¹,

Martin²,

Loureiro³

et al. 2020

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The implications of climate change for biological invasions are multifaceted and vary along the invasion process. Changes in vectors and pathways are likely to manifest in changes in transport routes and destinations, together with altered transit times and traffic volume. Ultimately, changes in the nature of why, how, and where biota are transported and introduced will pose biosecurity challenges. These challenges will require increased human and institutional capacity, as well as proactive responses such as improved early detection, adaptation of present protocols and innovative legal instruments. Invasion success and spread are expected to be moderated by the physiological response of alien and native biota to environmental changes and the ensuing changes in biotic interactions. These in turn will likely affect management actions aimed at eradicating, containing, and mitigating invasions, necessitating an adaptive approach to management that is sensitive to potentially unanticipated outcomes.

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Section: Valuable Yet Problematic Databasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions

Robinson¹,

Martin²,

Loureiro³

et al. 2020

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“…Biodiversity data need to be managed in forms that are accessible and useful to practitioners (Ball-Damerow et al, 2019), requiring collaborative efforts that integrate and coordinate while remaining flexible enough to accommodate the dynamics of changing knowledge and available information (Costello et al, 2018).…”

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What Are the Grand Challenges for Plant Conservation in the 21st Century?

Gillson

Seymour

Slingsby

et al. 2020

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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“…Rather than try to 'stabilize' names what is needed is a quality assured way to link together names that mean the same thing, or close to the same thing (Thomsen et al 2018). Such systems have been developed and could be extended to all species (Costello et al 2018, Kroh et al 2019. For example, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a centralized open-access online database of all marine and many other species whose nomenclature is continually updated by a community of about 300 taxonomic editors (Costello et al 2013a).…”

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“…WoRMS demonstrates how the second goal can be achieved. Such a centralized expert-validated database could be expanded to all species on Earth, and continually expanded with ancillary information (e.g., species attributes such as if they are extant, extinct, fossil, environment, habitat, and body size) (Costello et al 2013a(Costello et al , 2018Kroh et al 2019). Indeed, such a system is now being developed as a collaboration between the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and Species 2000 called the Catalogue of Life 'plus' (CoL+) (Hobern et al 2019).…”

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Taxonomy as the key to life

Costello

2020

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Taxonomy is a key to life in not only providing guides to distinguishing species but in opening the door to knowledge about biodiversity. Species names, as the only standardised measure of biodiversity, are essential for communication of information about nature. However, new knowledge means that what we understand a species to be may change over time. Online species databases are improving accessibility to this knowledge and expertise and provide an easy way to keep up to date with species nomenclature and classification. I propose three practical priorities for taxonomy: (1) complete a world list of all known species through the “Catalogue of Life”; (2) establish an online cooperative community infrastructure that updates species nomenclature and links it to associated literature, information and expertise; (3) create an internet portal as a key to life on Earth. The first is near completion in the Catalogue of Life. The second has an exemplar in the World Register of Marine Species. The third goal has not begun but some of its ingredients exist. Moreover, a “key to life” infrastructure suitably supported by the community and science organisations, could be a focal point for a world taxonomic society and a taxonomy based mega-science initiative to understand life on Earth.

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Sustainable Biodiversity Databasing: International, Collaborative, Dynamic, Centralised

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions

Double trouble: the implications of climate change for biological invasions

What Are the Grand Challenges for Plant Conservation in the 21st Century?

Taxonomy as the key to life

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