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Estimating the Completeness of Preserved Collections in Representing Global Biodiversity Meise Botanic Garden
There are an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic species globally and knowledge of those organisms is organised about their scientific names and the specimens we have of those species (Sweetlove 2011, Mora et al. 2011). Likewise there are between 1.2 and 2.1 billion (109) specimens held in biodiversity collections globally (Ariño 2010). These collections constitute an infrastructure and scientific tool to understand, catalogue and study ...
Biodiversity data supports research on human infectious diseases: Global trends, challenges, and opportunities Meise Botanic Garden
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. Therefore, their understanding may require the access to biodiversity data related to the ecology and the occurrence of the species involved. Nevertheless, despite several data-mobilization initiatives, the usage ...
B-Cubed: Leveraging Analysis-Ready Biodiversity Datasets and Cloud Computing for Timely and Actionable Biodiversity Monitoring Meise Botanic Garden
Effective biodiversity management and policy decisions require timely access to accurate and reliable information on biodiversity status, trends, and threats. However, the process of data cleaning, aggregation, and analysis is often time-consuming, convoluted, laborious, and irreproducible. Biodiversity monitoring across large areas faces challenges in evaluating data completeness and quantifying sampling effort. Despite these obstacles, ...
Reviewing taxonomic bias in a megadiverse country: primary biodiversity data, cultural salience, and scientific interest of South African animals Hasselt University KU Leuven
Taxonomic bias, resulting in some taxa receiving more attention than others, has been shown to persist throughout history. Such bias in primary biodiversity data needs to be addressed because the data are vital to environmental management. This study reviews taxonomic bias in South African primary biodiversity data obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The focus was specifically on animal classes, and regression ...
Is citizen science an open science in the case of biodiversity observations ? Meise Botanic Garden
There is a high demand for biodiversity observation data to inform conservation and environmental policy, and citizen scientists generate the vast majority of terrestrial biodiversity observations. As this work is voluntary, many people assume that these data are openly available for use in conservation and scientific research. Here, the openness of biodiversity observation data that are contributed to the Global Biodiversity Information ...
The Biodiversity Informatics Landscape: Elements, Connections and Opportunities Meise Botanic Garden
There are a multitude of biodiversity informatics projects, datasets, databases and initiatives at the global level, and many more at regional, national, and sometimes local levels. In such a complex landscape, it can be unclear how different elements relate to each other. Based on a high-level review of global and European-level elements, we present a map of the biodiversity informatics landscape. This is a first attempt at identifying key ...
BioDATA - Biodiversity data for internationalisation in higher education Meise Botanic Garden
BioDATA is an international project on developing skills in biodiversity data management and data publishing. Between 2018 and 2021, undergraduate and postgraduate students from Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, and Ukraine, have an opportunity to take part in the intensive courses to become certified professionals in biodiversity data management. They will gain practical skills and obtain appropriate knowledge on: international data standards ...
The Royal Museum for central Africa in the era of biodiversity informatics Meise Botanic Garden
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) is holding collections of about 10 million animal, wood and paleontological specimens, originating from the whole of the Afrotropical region (mainly from the central part) and has in recent years actively collaborated to biodiversity information projects. The collections "Xylarium" (wood samples) and "Prelude" (medicinal plants) of its Metafro Infosys project were in 2003 among the first Belgian ...
Biodiversity Informatics: A success story for the long-term financial sustainability of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Meise Botanic Garden
The European Open Science Cloud's (EOSC) ambition to provide European researchers, innovators, companies, and citizens with a federated and open multi-disciplinary environment where they can publish, find and reuse data, tools and services for research, innovation, and educational purposes. To enable this, EOSC promotes the use of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) principles. The EOSC Sustainability Working Group under ...