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Collating biodiversity occurrence data for conservation
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Plant and animal checklists, with conservation status information, are fundamental for conservation management. Historical field data, more recent data of digital origin and data-sharing platforms provide useful sources for collating species locality ...
Dian Spear +5 more
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The use of biodiversity data in rural development programming [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2017 This study focuses on rural development policy implementers and evaluators as users of European biodiversity data. It critically analyses the use of biodiversity data for measuring the impact of agri-environment programmes and related rural development ...
Evelyn Underwood, Miriam Grace
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The dragonflies in the collection of Sapienza University of Rome [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) are key bioindicators of freshwater ecosystem health and are widely used in ecological and conservation research.
Davide Tamagnini +3 more
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Data Leakage and Loss in Biodiversity Informatics
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018 The field of biodiversity informatics is in a massive, “grow-out” phase of creating and enabling large-scale biodiversity data resources. Because perhaps 90% of existing biodiversity data nonetheless remains unavailable for science and policy ...
A. Townsend Peterson +4 more
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Applications in Plant Sciences, 2021 Premise The scale and associated costs of herbarium digitization make process automation appealing. One such process for many workflows is the association of specimen image files with barcode values stored with the specimen.
Caleb Powell, Joey Shaw
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Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019 There has been major progress over the last two decades in digitising historical knowledge of biodiversity and in making biodiversity data freely and openly accessible. Interlocking efforts bring together international partnerships and networks, national,
Donald Hobern +15 more
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Opportunistic citizen science produces large amounts of primary biodiversity data but is underutilized in the conservation and management of protected areas despite these areas’ status as citizen science hotspots. Application of these data may be limited
Caitlin P. Mandeville +2 more
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Biodiversity data provision and decision-making - addressing the challenges [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2017 Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) are measurements required for study, reporting, and management of biodiversity change. They are being developed to support consistency, from the collection to the reporting of biodiversity data at the national ...
Katherine Despot-Belmonte +16 more
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Estimating herbarium specimen digitization rates: Accounting for human experience
Applications in Plant Sciences, 2021 Premise Herbaria are invaluable sources for understanding the natural world, and in recent years there has been a concerted effort to digitize these collections. To organize such efforts, a method for estimating the necessary labor is desired.
Caleb Powell +8 more
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Conservation-Status Gaps for Marine Top-Fished Commercial Species
Fishes, 2021 Biodiversity loss is a global problem, accelerated by human-induced pressures. In the marine realm, one of the major threats to species conservation, together with climate change, is overfishing.
Imanol Miqueleiz +3 more
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