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Protecting or Destroying? Romania’s Biodiversity in the Face of Modern Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics
This article explores the current state of biodiversity in Romania, with a focus on agricultural biodiversity and the pressures exerted by industrialization, modernization, and globalization. It examines the spatial, structural, and biological dimensions
Petruta-Simona Grosu (Simion)
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Occurrence cubes : a new paradigm for aggregating species occurrence data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper we describe a method of aggregating species occurrence data into what we coined “occurrence cubes”. The aggregated data can be perceived as a cube with three dimensions - taxonomic, temporal and geographic - and takes into account the ...
Adriaens, Tim   +7 more
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Biodiversity data supports research on human infectious diseases: Global trends, challenges, and opportunities

open access: yesOne Health, 2023
The unprecedented generation of large volumes of biodiversity data is consistently contributing to a wide range of disciplines, including disease ecology. Emerging infectious diseases are usually zoonoses caused by multi-host pathogens.
Francisca Astorga   +8 more
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Diversifying the GBIF Data Model

open access: yesBiodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2022
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has been immensely successful in mobilizing a large number of records documenting species occurrence through a global network of data publishers. Today over 2 billion records are available for search and download through the GBIF.org infrastructure, with over 200 million originating in natural science
Tim Robertson   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Niche divergence and limits to expansion in the high polyploid Dianthus broteri complex [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Niche evolution in plant polyploids remains controversial and evidence for alternative patterns has been reported. Using the autopolyploid Dianthus broteri complex (2×, 4×, 6× and 12×) as a model, we aimed to integrate three scenarios – competitive ...
Balao Robles, Francisco J.   +2 more
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GBIF Benin's Data Portal [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2018
GBIF Benin, hosted at the University of Abomey-Calavi, has published more than 338,000 occurrence records in 87 datasets and checklists. It has been a Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) node since 2004 and is a leader in several projects from the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme.
Lecoq,Marie-Elise   +5 more
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GBIF Integration of Open Data  [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2021
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) runs a global data infrastructure that integrates data from more than 1700 institutions. Combining data at this scale has been achieved by deploying open Application Programming Interfaces (API) that adhere to the open data standards provided by Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).
Tim Robertson   +8 more
openaire   +1 more source

Biologically informed ecological niche models for an example pelagic, highly mobile species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Although pelagic seabirds are broadly recognised as indicators of the health of marine systems, numerous gaps exist in knowledge of their at-sea distributions at the species level.
Ingenloff, Kate
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Alkaloids Used as Medicines: Structural Phytochemistry Meets Biodiversity—An Update and Forward Look

open access: yesMolecules, 2021
Selecting candidates for drug developments using computational design and empirical rules has resulted in a broad discussion about their success. In a previous study, we had shown that a species’ abundance [as expressed by the GBIF (Global Biodiversity ...
Michael Heinrich   +2 more
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MHA Herbarium: Eastern European collections of vascular plants [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2020
World herbaria with 387.5M specimens (Thiers 2019) are being rapidly digitised. At least 79.9M plant specimens (20.6%) are already databased throughout the globe in the standard form of GBIF-mediated data.
Alexey Seregin, Nina Stepanova
doaj   +3 more sources

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