The Biodiversity Informatics Landscape: Elements, Connections and Opportunities

Bingham, Heather; Doudin, Michel; Weatherdon, Lauren; Despot-Belmonte, Katherine; Wetzel, Florian T.; Groom, Quentin; Lewis, Edward; Regan, Eugenie; Appeltans, Ward; Güntsch, Anton; Mergen, Patricia; Agosti, Donat; Penev, Lyubomir; Hoffmann, Anke; Saarenmaa, Hannu; Geller, Gary N.; Kim, Kidong; Kim, Hye-Jin; Archambeau, Anne‐Sophie; Häuser, Christoph L.; Schmeller, Dirk S.; Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Camacho, Antonio García; Guerra, Carlos A.; Robertson, Tim; Runnel, Veljo; Valland, Nils; Martin, Corinne

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“…In contrast to groups of organisms from other realms (e.g., aboveground terrestrial 31 ) for which the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) constitutes already the main global data hub 32,33 , soil organisms are poorly represented, with distribution data on soil species spread across the literature and a number of platforms (e.g., the global Ants database 34 , the Earth Microbiome project 35 ). Across all available soil biodiversity data, major issues remain regarding the spatial and temporal representativeness (e.g., absent data in most tropical systems) of data, and coverage of taxonomic groups of soil biota (e.g., most focus on fungi and Bacteria), which limits our capacity to comprehensively assess and understand soil systems at multiple temporal and biogeographic scales.…”

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Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

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Soils harbor a substantial fraction of the world's biodiversity, contributing to many crucial ecosystem functions. It is thus essential to identify general macroecological patterns related to the distribution and functioning of soil organisms to support their conservation and governance. Here we identify and characterize the existing gaps in soil biodiversity and ecosystem function data across soil macroecological studies and >11,000 sampling sites. These include significant spatial, environmental, taxonomic, and functional gaps, and an almost complete absence of temporally explicit data. We also identify the limitations of soil macroecological studies to explore general patterns in soil biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships, with only 0.6% of all sampling sites having a non-systematic coverage of both biodiversity and function datasets. Based on this information, we provide clear priorities to support and expand soil macroecological research.

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Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

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Sikorski

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“…Concerns about data reliability and usability, the how and why of their publication, have repeatedly emerged in the literature (4, 7–9). Huang et al (13) and Tenopir (12) researched the willingness to publish data among researchers.…”

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The tragedy of the biodiversity data commons: a data impediment creeping nigher?

2018

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Researchers are embracing the open access movement to facilitate unrestricted availability of scientific results. One sign of this willingness is the steady increase in data freely shared online, which has prompted a corresponding increase in the number of papers using such data. Publishing datasets is a time-consuming process that is often seen as a courtesy, rather than a necessary step in the research process. Making data accessible allows further research, provides basic information for decision-making and contributes to transparency in science. Nevertheless, the ease of access to heaps of data carries a perception of ‘free lunch for all’, and the work of data publishers is largely going unnoticed. Acknowledging such a significant effort involving the creation, management and publication of a dataset remains a flimsy, not well established practice in the scientific community. In a meta-analysis of published literature, we have observed various dataset citation practices, but mostly (92%) consisting of merely citing the data repository rather than the data publisher. Failing to recognize the work of data publishers might lead to a decrease in the number of quality datasets shared online, compromising potential research that is dependent on the availability of such data. We make an urgent appeal to raise awareness about this issue.

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“…Such clubs were composed of botanists who corresponded to each other by exchanging plant specimens, with the goal of expanding their collections. Another recent study uses network analysis to investigate the connectivity patterns and roles of organizations in the Biodiversity Informatics landscape [Bingham et al 2017]. Another interesting study, which is at some level analogous to our SCNs, uses a networkbased approach for modeling the interests of music listeners towards genera, with the goal of characterizing collective music listening habits among users of media streaming platforms [Lambiotte and Ausloos 2006].…”

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On the Social Structure behind Biological Collections

Siracusa¹,

Gadelha²,

Ziviani³

2018

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In this paper we describe two network models as a base for understanding the relevance of social processes involving collectors for shaping the composition of biological collections. Species-Collector Networks (SCNs) represent the interests of collectors towards particular species, while Collector CoWorking Networks (CWNs) represent collaborative ties between collectors during fieldwork. We demonstrate the practical use of our models with species occurrence data from the University of Brasília Herbarium.

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The Biodiversity Informatics Landscape: Elements, Connections and Opportunities

Cited by 41 publications

References 20 publications

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research

The tragedy of the biodiversity data commons: a data impediment creeping nigher?

On the Social Structure behind Biological Collections

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