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Vitex oreadica and V. umbellata (Lamiaceae): two new species from Cerrado and Atlantic forest of Brazil

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Vitex L. is a pantropical genus of Lamiaceae comprising 209 taxa. Brazil harbors 35 species, representing nearly 50% of the genus richness in the Neotropics, with the Amazon showing the highest richness, followed by the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado domains. Nevertheless, most taxonomic studies of the genus have been conducted in Africa and Asia.
Thaís Teixeira Conegiro, Guilherme Medeiros Antar, Carla Poleselli Bruniera   +2 more
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Is the GBIF appropriate for use as input in models of predicting species distributions? Study from the Czech Republic

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука
Questions concerning species diversity have attracted ecologists and biogeographers for over a century, mainly because the diversity of life on Earth is in rapid decline, which is expected to continue in the future.
Zuzana Štípková, Spyros Tsiftsis, Pavel Kindlmann   +2 more
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New data on limno-terrestrial rotifers of the world [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
Limno-terrestrial rotifers, particularly those of the order Bdelloidea, inhabit bryophytes, lichens, soils and other periodically moist terrestrial habitats.
Dzmitry Lukashanets, Nataliia Iakovenko, Diego Fontaneto, Miloslav Devetter, Karel Janko, Jolanta Ejsmont-Karabin, Irena Bielańska-Grajner, Bernard Hallet, Jerzy Smykla, Iryna Kozeretska, Vladlen Trokhymets, Vítězslav Plášek, Oleksii Redchenko, Murat Kaya, Yasin Hazer, Mariusz Wierzgoń   +15 more
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Amanita theophili sp. nov. (Amanitaceae) from central Mexico

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Amanita theophili sp. nov., a member of Amanita sect. Amidella (Amanitaceae), is described from temperate pine‐oak forests in Morelos, central Mexico. Morphological features and phylogenetic analyses based on ITS and 28S rDNA sequences confirm its distinct taxonomic status. The new species is morphologically similar to A. peckiana and A.
Evangelina Pérez‐Silva, Edith Garay‐Serrano   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occupancy of Urban Habitats by the Jersey Tiger Moth Is Revealed by Social Media Data but Not Traditional Monitoring

Ecology and Evolution
As the world's climate changes, species are undergoing range shifts. Range shifts are generally documented using databases such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), which largely contain data from monitoring schemes and wildlife ...
Nile Stephenson, Nathalie Pettorelli, Regan Early   +2 more
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Investigating the Spatial Biases and Temporal Trends in Insect Pollinator Occurrence Data on GBIF

Insects
Research in biogeography, ecology, and biodiversity hinges on the availability of comprehensive datasets that detail species distributions and environmental conditions.
Ehsan Rahimi, Chuleui Jung
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Reestablishment and a new name for Actinostemon grandifolius (Müll.Arg.) Pax

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The genus Actinostemon has undergone several changes in its circumscription due to persistent difficulties in its taxonomic placement. The taxonomic history of the genus is controversial and marked by nomenclatural issues, particularly involving its type species, Actinostemon grandifolius Klotzsch, including incorrect synonymizations and the ...
Amanda O. Souza, Josimar Külkamp, Otávio Luis M. da Silva, Inês Cordeiro, Daniela S. Carneiro‐Torres   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screenshot of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Mapping and Analysis Portal Application at the map and validation step of performing a species richness analysis

, 2011
Copyright information:Taken from "Towards a collaborative, global infrastructure for biodiversity assessment"Ecology Letters 2007;10(8):663-672.Published online Jan 2007PMCID:PMC2040220.© 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS In the previous step, a region
Meredith Lane (35730), Andrew W Hill (35729), Robert P Guralnick (35728)   +2 more
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Using GBIF to Demonstrate Colonial Legacies on Biodiversity Data

, 2022
Biologists recognize the Caribbean archipelago as a biodiversity hotspot and employ it for their research as a "natural laboratory", but do not always appreciate that these ecosystems are in fact palimpsests shaped by multiple human cultures over ...
Giovas, Christina M., LeFebvre, Michelle J., Pateman, Michael, Fowler, Kelly, Dávalos, Liliana M., Nieves-Colón, Maria A., Mychajliw, Alexis M., Cooke, Siobhan B., Fanovich, Lanya, Wrean, Ashley A., Fitzpatrick, Scott M., Kemp, Melissa, Mohammed, Ryan S., Turner, Grace, Stokowski, Myles   +14 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.
openaire   +1 more source