The use of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)-mediated data in publications written in Chinese

Luo, Maofang; Xu, Zhiwei; Hirsch, Tim; Aung, Thant Sin; Xu, Wenduo; Ji, Liqiang; Qin, Haining; Ma, Keping

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01406

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“…Networks of human observers have been shown to make valuable contributions to the collection of scientific data in diverse fields, such as astronomy, meteorology, and biology (Sullivan et al 2009, Tiago et al 2017, Luo et al 2021. Over the last decade, several international and national initiatives (e.g., Global big day, Ebird: https://ebird.org/globalbigday; BirdTrack: https://www.bto.org/our-science/ projects/birdtrack; RECOSFA: http://www.…”

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ID please: Evaluating the utility of Facebook as a source of data for snake research and conservation

Angarita–Sierra

Montaño-Londoño²,

Bravo-Vega

2022

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Social media has the potential to provide large amounts of biological data, especially for notoriously difficult groups of organisms to study in nature such as snakes. Here, we explored the utility of various Facebook communities to provide data for research on Colombian snakes. Specifically, we determined the richness, distribution, rarity, and popularity of snake species and compiled information on natural history observations and human-snake interactions. We also explored the spatial structure of posts using a geographically weighted regression model. Queries relating to species identifications made up 86.1% of Facebook posts. The portion of the snake community "sampled" by snake-related Facebook posts was not representative of the total richness of snake species in Colombia; however, these posts permitted a greater proportion of snake species to be sampled more rapidly compared with traditional snake sampling approaches. Facebook posts provided new distributional records for 9-21% of Colombian snake species. Rainfall, rural population, and internet availability were the strongest predictors of snake-related Facebook posts. Although the use of Facebook for compiling information on snakes is not free of bias, our findings demonstrate that Facebook communities provide a potentially powerful source of data that could aid studies of snake biology.

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confidence: 99%

ID please: Evaluating the utility of Facebook as a source of data for snake research and conservation

Angarita–Sierra

Montaño-Londoño²,

Bravo-Vega

2022

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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“…albopictus, excluding the samples we report here for the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. Our model is based on 79,247 observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, (Telenius 2011;Luo et al 2021)) from 1980 to the present (see Figure S1). We included 17 of the 19 bioclimatic variables from WorldClim (Fick and Hijmans 2017;Cerasoli et al 2022), omitting composite variables to avoid multicollinearity (see Table S2).…”

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The spread ofAedes albopictusin the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe

Rader,

Serrato-Capuchina,

Anspach

et al. 2023

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The mosquitoAedes albopictusis a vector species of Dengue, yellow fever, and Zika among other diseases. The species originated in Southeast Asia and has spread widely and rapidly in the last century. The species has been reported in localities from the Gulf of Guinea since the early 2000s, but systematic sampling has been scant. We sampledAe. albopictusbetween 2013 and 2023 across the altitudinal gradient in São Tomé and found that the species was present in all sampled years at altitudes up to 680 meters. We also find some evidence of increases in proportional representation compared toAe. aegyptiover time. We report the presence of the species in Príncipe for the first time, suggesting that the range ofAe. albopictusis larger than previously thought. Finally, we use bioclimatic niche modeling to infer the potential range ofAe. albopictusand infer that the species has the potential to spread across a large portion of São Tomé and Príncipe. Our results suggest thatAe. albopictushas established itself as a resident species of the islands of the Gulf of Guinea and should be incorporated into the list of potential vectors that need to be surveyed and controlled.

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“…The proliferation of open data aggregators, along with the rapidly evolving best practices for their use, has resulted in an uneven landscape of how such data are cited in the literature (Escribano et al 2018 , Ball-Damerow et al 2019 , Luo et al 2021 ). Citation of a digital object identifier (DOI) that is uniquely connected to the full data set analyzed in an article has emerged as the best practice in this area (Brown 2021 , Heberling et al 2021 ); this practice enables the data set to be clearly replicated and all original sources to be credited (Escribano et al 2018 , Luo et al 2021 ). But not all researchers are yet aware of this best practice, because it is relatively new.…”

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“…Many aspects of the sharing and reuse of openly accessible biodiversity data in the peer-reviewed literature have been characterized, including common research applications of open data, taxonomic and spatial trends in open data, persistence of data stored in open databases, and current citation practices for open data (Troudet et al 2017 , Escribano et al 2018 , Ball-Damerow et al 2019 , Heberling et al 2021 , Luo et al 2021 ). These studies make it clear that openly shared presence-only biodiversity data are foundational to a large body of biodiversity research.…”

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Open Data Practices among Users of Primary Biodiversity Data

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Presence-only biodiversity data are increasingly relied on in biodiversity, ecology, and conservation research, driven by growing digital infrastructures that support open data sharing and reuse. Recent reviews of open biodiversity data have clearly documented the value of data sharing, but the extent to which the biodiversity research community has adopted open data practices remains unclear. We address this question by reviewing applications of presence-only primary biodiversity data, drawn from a variety of sources beyond open databases, in the indexed literature. We characterize how frequently researchers access open data relative to data from other sources, how often they share newly generated or collated data, and trends in metadata documentation and data citation. Our results indicate that biodiversity research commonly relies on presence-only data that are not openly available and neglects to make such data available. Improved data sharing and documentation will increase the value, reusability, and reproducibility of biodiversity research.

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The use of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)-mediated data in publications written in Chinese

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

ID please: Evaluating the utility of Facebook as a source of data for snake research and conservation

ID please: Evaluating the utility of Facebook as a source of data for snake research and conservation

The spread ofAedes albopictusin the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe

Open Data Practices among Users of Primary Biodiversity Data

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