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A new species of Prestelia (Asteraceae: Vernonieae) from Minas Gerais, Brazil
Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Prestelia is a small genus of Asteraceae (Vernonieae: Lychnophorinae) endemic to the Espinhaço Range of mountains in Minas Gerais, Brazil. A new species of Prestelia, from the Diamantina Plateau (Minas Gerais, Brazil), is described here as Prestelia graminifolia.
Benoît Loeuille +3 more
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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GBIF metagenomics and metacrap
, 2019 Yes, this is a clickbait headline, and yes, it may seem like shooting fish in a barrel to complain about crappy data in GBIF, but my point here is raise concerns about the impact of metagenomic data on GBIF, and how difficult it may be to track down the causes of errors.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Earth's ecosystems are experiencing wide‐ranging impacts from global climate change, including increased average and extreme temperatures. These temperature shifts can drastically affect plant physiology, threatening the future of even common plant species. Here, we focus on photosynthetic function in a native Southern California shrub species.
Anna K. M. Bowen +8 more
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, 2008 The more I play with GBIF the more I come across some spectacular errors. Here's one small example of what can go wrong, and how easy it would be to fix at least some of the errors in GBIF. This is topical given that the recent review of EOL highlighted the importance of vetting and cleaning data.
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Evolution of GBIF's Taxonomic Backbone
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2022 GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is an international research data infrastructure that mediates data from various sources such as museum collections, citizen science observations and machine generated data such as camera trap and environmental DNA.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi +3 more
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Publication of Sochinsky "Dendrary" collection in GBIF
Hortus Botanicus, 2018 Publication of collection data in the Global Biodiversity Information System (Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF) provides botanic gardens with new opportunities to participate in programs for the conservation and reproduction of natural ...
Annenkova Irina Vladimirovna
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GBIF and open biodiversity data: what license should GBIF use?
, 2013 GBIF is asking for views on how it should license of data in the GBIF network. The full consultation document is available from Google Drive and DropBox.
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver +15 more
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