item: #1 of 106 id: jbi-11989 author: Dallas, Tad A.; Santini, Luca ; Decker, Robin ; Hastings, Alan title: Weighing the Evidence for the Abundant-Center Hypothesis date: 2020 words: 7619 flesch: 52 summary: Here, Table 1: A review of existing support for the abundant-center hypothesis suggests that approximately 20% of species demonstrate a relationship between species density and distance to a species geographic range or climatic niche center. Reflecting boundaries such as impassable streams serve may influence the spatial distribution of species density by increasing species densities at barriers, and by not allowing access to suitable geographic areas beyond the dis- persal barriers (Nislow et al. 2011). keywords: center; center hypothesis; center relationships; dallas; density; dispersal; distance; distribution; ecology; et al; hypothesis; niche; population; range; relationships; santini; space; species; support cache: jbi-11989.pdf plain text: jbi-11989.txt item: #2 of 106 id: jbi-12060 author: Peterson, A. Townsend; Soberón, Jorge; Ramsey, Janine; Osorio-Olvera, Luis title: Response to Stephens et al. (2019) date: 2020 words: 1045 flesch: 45 summary: Interpretation as actual interactions—and determining types of in- teractions—requires further information that is gen- erally unavailable from simple occurrence data. Similarly, for pollination, or any other type of ecological micro interaction. keywords: interactions cache: jbi-12060.pdf plain text: jbi-12060.txt item: #3 of 106 id: jbi-13218 author: Yañez, Carlos; Martín, Gerardo ; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Escobar-Luján, Jazmín; Castaño-Quintero, Sandra; Chiappa-Carrara, Xavier; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique title: The Abundant Niche-centroid Hypothesis: Key Points About Unfilled Niches and the Potential Use of Supraspecfic Modeling Units date: 2020 words: 6834 flesch: 55 summary: We use the BAM components and configurations to exemplify situations in which distances to the niche centroid estimated from distributional data may and may not explain species abundances. Also, considering that M determines the set of regions and environments occupied by the species, the known set of presence records (G+) occur in geographic space (Go), so the associated environments η(G+) are already reduced by M. As a consequence, niche models that have been calibrated in an M region will frequently under-char- acterize the NF (Peterson and Soberón 2012), and the estimation of their centroid will be biased. keywords: abundance; centroid; data; et al; hypothesis; models; niche; peterson; soberón; species cache: jbi-13218.pdf plain text: jbi-13218.txt item: #4 of 106 id: jbi-13302 author: Holt, Robert D. title: Some thoughts about the challenge of inferring ecological interactions from spatial data. date: 2020 words: 4279 flesch: 55 summary: They use an anal- ogy with physics to understand ecology (in their Box 1), and state that fundamental interactions in physics are ‘direct’, whereas other interactions are ‘indirect’. In the former case, the epsilon of Stephens et al. indicates positive interactions, yet experiments show negative interactions. keywords: data; et al; interactions; occurrence; patterns; species; stephens cache: jbi-13302.pdf plain text: jbi-13302.txt item: #5 of 106 id: jbi-13376 author: Simoes, Marianna; Romero-Alvarez, Daniel; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia; Jiménez, Laura; E. Cobos, Marlon title: General Theory and Good Practices in Ecological Niche Modeling: A Basic Guide date: 2020 words: 1041 flesch: 59 summary: Ecological niche modeling (ENM) and species distribution modeling (SDM) are sets of tools that allow the estimation of distributional areas on the basis of establishing relationships among known occur- rences and environmental variables. Seeking to reduce mistakes, improve standard- ization, ensure consistency, and provide training on the application of these tools, we provide basic guide- lines on the building of ecological niche models. keywords: modeling; niche; species cache: jbi-13376.pdf plain text: jbi-13376.txt item: #6 of 106 id: jbi-13384 author: Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine; Valavi, Roozbeh; Abegg, Meinrad; Bruce, Caroline; Ferrier, Simon; Ford, Andrew; Guisan, Antoine; Hijmans, Robert J.; Huettmann, Falk; Lohmann, Lucia; Loiselle, Bette; Moritz, Craig; Overton, Jake; Peterson, A. Townsend; Phillips, Steven; Richardson, Karen; Williams, Stephen; Wiser, Susan K.; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. title: Presence-only and Presence-absence Data for Comparing Species Distribution Modeling Methods date: 2020 words: 7291 flesch: 65 summary: The regions show useful vari- ation in the amount of species data per region, with tens to thousands of PO records per species, and 102 to 19 120 PA evaluation sites (Table 1 and detailed summaries per region in Supplementary Information 2). Top left: maps of species data, top right: an interactive map with PA site locations; Bottom left: density plot showing the distribution of PO data along one environmental gradient, compared with that of random points from the region; Bottom right: pairwise correlations between variable. keywords: bias; data; distribution; elith; et al; evaluation; group; methods; modeling; models; presence; records; region; species cache: jbi-13384.pdf plain text: jbi-13384.txt item: #7 of 106 id: jbi-13402 author: Stephens, Christopher Rhodes title: Can We Infer Species Interactions from Co-occurrence Patterns? A Reply to Peterson et al. (2020) date: 2020 words: 2615 flesch: 52 summary: The properties that Peterson et al. question are all well-known attributes of this diagnostic. Our key assertion, again, is that geographic co-occurrence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for such biotic interactions to be present. keywords: et al; occurrence; peterson; species cache: jbi-13402.pdf plain text: jbi-13402.txt item: #8 of 106 id: jbi-14758 author: Zabihi, Khodabakhsh; Huettmann, Falk; Young, Brian title: Predicting multi-species bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) occurrence in Alaska: First use of open access big data mining and open source GIS to provide robust inference and a role model for progress in forest conservation date: 2021 words: 11399 flesch: 56 summary: Elevation showed a different pattern from other predictors: in all three models, areas at elevations <2000 m and >4000 m favored bark beetle presence, whereas elevations of 2000-4000 m was not occupied by bark beetle species. In this sense, the common, individual-based approach of modeling and mapping spatial distributions of bark beetle species may not provide comprehensive information required for efficient forest management. keywords: alaska; bark; bark beetle; beetle; beetle species; biodiversity; data; distance; et al; figure; forest; huettmann; land; learning; machine; map; model; points; presence; species; spruce; tree; variables; white cache: jbi-14758.pdf plain text: jbi-14758.txt item: #9 of 106 id: jbi-14782 author: Soberón, Jorge; Cobos, Marlon E.; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia title: Visualizing species richness and site similarity from presence-absence matrices date: 2021 words: 5160 flesch: 56 summary: Considering how the ran- domization is done, before starting the process, we broke any potential geographic structure remaining in the PAM (where closer rows are also closer cells in the geography) by rearranging randomly the rows (which represent geographic cells) but maintaining the identity of these cells in the results. The two cases are: 1) a positive mini- mum covariance when comparing communities per site (grid cells in our case); and 2) the case with a negative minimum covariance. keywords: cells; dispersion; diversity; field; pam; plot; range; richness; species; values cache: jbi-14782.pdf plain text: jbi-14782.txt item: #10 of 106 id: jbi-15016 author: Peterson, A. Townsend; Aiello-Lammens, Matthew; Amatulli, Giuseppe; Anderson, Robert; Cobos, Marlon; Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre; Escobar, Luis; Feng, Xiao; Franklin, Janet; Gadelha, Luiz; Georges, Damien; Guéguen, M; Gueta, Tomer; Ingenloff, Kate; Jarvie, Scott; Jiménez, Laura; Karger, Dirk; Kass, Jamie; Kearney, Michael; Loyola, Rafael; Machado-Stredel, Fernando; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique; Merow, Cory; Mondelli, Maria Luiza; Mortara, Sara; Muscarella, Robert; Myers, Corinne; Naimi, Babak; Noesgaard, Daniel; Ondo, Ian; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Owens, Hannah; Pearson, Richard; Pinilla-Buitrago, Gonzalo; Sánchez-Tapia, Andrea; Saupe, Erin; Thuiller, Wilfried; Varela, Sara; Warren, Dan; Wieczorek, John; Yates, Katherine; Zhu, Gengping; Zuquim, Gabriela; Zurell, Damaris title: ENM2020: A Free Online Course and Set of Resources on Modeling Species' Niches and Distributions date: 2022 words: 4386 flesch: 0 summary: BAM scenario exercises Video ATP Pdf -- Question and answer Video MC, FMS, MP, ATP -- Materials Special discussion: Extent and Resolution Video MC, JS, ATP -- EcoClimate ALGORITHMS Algorithms / Relation to Theory† Video JF Pdf Hastie, Elith, Elith06 Un Solo Díos Video ATP Pdf Materials Question and answer Video MC, ATP -- Paper on uses, Zhu. BAM and M and model success - What you can and cannot model Video ATP Pdf BAM, Literature. keywords: answer video; atp; atp pdf; biodiversity; course; materials; model; modeling; new; pdf; pdf materials; peterson; question; species; university; usa; video; video atp; video mc cache: jbi-15016.pdf plain text: jbi-15016.txt item: #11 of 106 id: jbi-15483 author: Rocha, Tainá; Vale, Mariana M.; Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus S. title: Global land-use and land-cover data for ecologists: Historical, current, and future scenarios date: 2021 words: 6878 flesch: 66 summary: 36(2): 601-616. doi:10.1007/s10980-020-01152-z Chase, J. M., S.A. Blowes, T. M Knight, K. Gerstner, and F. May, F. 2020. Change, 109: 1-4. doi:10.1007/s10584-011- 0157-y. Zabel, F., Delzeit, R., Schneider, J. M., Seppelt, R., Maus- er, W., and Václavík, T. 2019. keywords: 2020; accuracy; biodiversity; change; climate; cover; data; et al; files; forest; global; land; lulc; use cache: jbi-15483.pdf plain text: jbi-15483.txt item: #12 of 106 id: jbi-15581 author: Saeedi, Hanieh; Brandt, Angelika; Jacobsen, Nils L. title: Biodiversity and distribution of Isopoda and Polychaeta along the Northwestern Pacific and the Arctic Ocean date: 2022 words: 10450 flesch: 65 summary: Rarefac‑ tion (ES15) showed that highest species richness was around the Philippines, Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, and the AO (Fig. 1). Polychaetes with unknown pelagic larvae showed higher species richness in the AO as well the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea (Fig. S8). keywords: biodiversity; brandt; deep; depth; distribution; et al; fig; isopoda; larval; marine; number; ocean; pacific; polychaeta; records; richness; saeedi; saeedi et; sampling; sea; shallow; species; species richness; waters cache: jbi-15581.pdf plain text: jbi-15581.txt item: #13 of 106 id: jbi-1574 author: Downey, Laura; Pennington, Deana title: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE WITH EXAMPLES FROM ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY date: 2009 words: 5752 flesch: 44 summary: They can be categorized into two broad areas: user interface design issues and annotation issues. Table 2 gives a small sample of the kinds of user profile data we collected on SEEK. keywords: data; design; group; kepler; knowledge; pennington; research; science; scientists; seek; technology; ucd; usability; user cache: jbi-1574.pdf plain text: jbi-1574.txt item: #14 of 106 id: jbi-15985 author: Cobos, Marlon E.; Peterson, A. Townsend title: Detecting Signals of Species’ Ecological Niches in Results of Studies with Defined Sampling Protocols: Example Application to Pathogen Niches date: 2022 words: 4856 flesch: 50 summary: Pathogen niche is equal to host niche 12–26 700–2800 T: 5.44 P: 122,500 0.52 Pathogen 2 Pathogen niche has the same size as host niche but with changed position 14–28 800–2900 T: 5.44 P: 122,500 0.38 Pathogen 3 Pathogen niche changed in position and size (smaller) compared to host niche 13–22 900–2600 T: 2.25 P: 8,277 keywords: data; distribution; host; niche; pathogen; records; sampling; species cache: jbi-15985.pdf plain text: jbi-15985.txt item: #15 of 106 id: jbi-16 author: Chavan, Vishwas Shravan; Rane, Nilesh Sunil; Watve, Aparna; Ruggiero, Michael title: Resolving taxonmic discrepancies: Role of Electronic Catalogues of Known Organisms date: 2005 words: 4614 flesch: 47 summary: Hence, to build up easy communication pathways and reduce the time input, it would be extremely helpful to have a web-based central registry system for taxonomic names. In addition, a permanent mechanism for registering and validating scientific names of organisms needs to be created at national as well as global levels. keywords: class; discrepancies; genus; india; information; international; itis; names; nomenclature; order; phylum; species cache: jbi-16.pdf plain text: jbi-16.txt item: #16 of 106 id: jbi-1626 author: Kakodkar, Aditya P; Kerkar, Sarika S.; Varghese, Neena S.; Kavlekar, Devanand P.; Achuthankutty, C. T. title: DARWIN CORE BASED DATA STREAMLINING WITH DigiMus 2.0 date: 2009 words: 1980 flesch: 54 summary: Funding for biological data management in developing countries is much less or entirely nonexistent (Thomson, 2005). In this paper we present a web based open source software tool named “DigiMus 2.0” which enables individuals to manage biological specimen data from their collection and effectively structure it according to Darwin Core data standards v 1.2 ( DwC v 1.2). keywords: core; darwin; data; digimus; information; web cache: jbi-1626.pdf plain text: jbi-1626.txt item: #17 of 106 id: jbi-16271 author: Cobos, Marlon E.; Barve, Vijay ; Barve, Narayani; Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia title: rangemap: An R Package to Explore Species' Geographic Ranges date: 2022 words: 4124 flesch: 51 summary: Data required The main input for analysis functions is a set of occurrence data (geographic coordinates) in the form of a “data.frame”. Visualization tools included in the package help to produce simple, high-quality representations of occurrence data and figures summarizing resulting ranges in geographic and environmental spaces. keywords: analysis; data; occurrence; package; rangemap; ranges; species cache: jbi-16271.pdf plain text: jbi-16271.txt item: #18 of 106 id: jbi-1631 author: Güntsch, Anton; Hoffmann, Niels; Kelbert, Patricia; Berendsohn, Walter G. title: EFFECTIVELY SEARCHING SPECIMEN AND OBSERVATION DATA WITH TOQE, THE THESAURUS OPTIMIZED QUERY EXPANDER date: 2009 words: 2513 flesch: 50 summary: 53-58 58 as well as Euro+Med plantbase and ERMS, have been added as thesaurus databases. The TOQE query functions are directly integrated into the specimen search interface so that taxonomists can easily pick from the list of available thesaurus systems. keywords: data; portal; query; service; specimen; thesaurus; toqe cache: jbi-1631.pdf plain text: jbi-1631.txt item: #19 of 106 id: jbi-1633 author: Ch'ng, Eugene title: AN EFFICIENT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR ENTITY INTERACTION date: 2009 words: 5973 flesch: 52 summary: Other methods are developed for representing complex outdoor scenes in computer graphics (Snyder and Barr 1987, Deussen et al. 1998, Soler et al. 2003) but algorithms have not been formalised for improving the efficiency of large entity interactions. In theory, the simulation time should decrease with the increase of landscape segments. keywords: algorithm; entities; entity; figure; interaction; landscape; life; modelling; number; plants; segmentation; segments; simulation cache: jbi-1633.pdf plain text: jbi-1633.txt item: #20 of 106 id: jbi-1634 author: Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto; Nakazawa, Yoshinori; Lira-Noriega, Andrés; Peterson, A. Townsend title: ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATION STRUCTURE AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODEL PROJECTIONS date: 2009 words: 3521 flesch: 45 summary: Transferability of species distribution models: A functional habitat approach for two regionally threatened butterflies. Such transferability applications, however, depend critically on the assumption that environmental variables relevant on one landscape or at one time will be relevant on another. keywords: africa; america; australia; correlation; eurasia; north america; south; variables cache: jbi-1634.pdf plain text: jbi-1634.txt item: #21 of 106 id: jbi-16441 author: Vattakaven, Thomas; Barve, Vijay ; Ramaswami, Geetha; Singh, Priya; Jagannathan, Suneha; Dhandapani, Balasubramanian title: Best Practices for Data Management in Citizen Science - An Indian Outlook date: 2022 words: 15872 flesch: 50 summary: Planning for Data Quality Assurance The credibility and quality of citizen science data is often questioned even though recent studies have challenged this view (e.g., Barve 2014). Regular backup of data with multiple copies in multiple locations and a con- sistent preservation policy across sites is essential for the security and integrity of citizen science data. keywords: access; biodiversity; biodiversity data; citizen science; collection; data; data collection; data management; data quality; et al; india; information; knowledge; participants; participation; practices; project; public; quality; research; science data; science projects; species; standards; terms; use; user cache: jbi-16441.pdf plain text: jbi-16441.txt item: #22 of 106 id: jbi-17 author: Koning, Drew; Sarkar, Indra Neil; Moritz, Thomas title: TaxonGrab: Extracting Taxonomic Names From Text date: 2005 words: 2766 flesch: 45 summary: Since taxonomic names are most typically – though not exclusively – derived from Greek or Latin, filters can be used to separate taxonomic name candidates using a language-specific lexicon (e.g., a lexicon of English words). Because organism nomenclature conforms closely to prescribed rules, automated techniques may be useful for identifying organism names from existing documents, and may also support the completion of comprehensive indices of taxonomic names; such comprehensive lists are not yet available. keywords: history; language; lexicon; museum; names; resources; taxongrab; text cache: jbi-17.pdf plain text: jbi-17.txt item: #23 of 106 id: jbi-17593 author: Vignoles, Anais title: Guide francophone pour la modélisation de niches écologiques date: 2022 words: 19464 flesch: 61 summary: Escobar et al., 2014; Alkishe et al., 2020; Nuñez-Penichet et al., 2021a), les mécanismes de macroévolution des espèces (e.g., Saupe et al., 2019), la paléoécologie et paléo-distribution d’espèces fossiles (e.g., Myers et al., 2015; Gibert, Vignoles et al., 2022), la diffusion de maladies via des vecteurs animaux (e.g., Sweeney et al., 2006; Escobar et al., 2017; Marques et al., 2020, 2021), l’impact du changement climatique sur les espèces animales ou végétales (e.g., Warren et al., 2014; Ashraf et al., 2017), ou encore les relations culture- environnement chez les chasseurs-cueilleurs du Paléolithique (e.g., Banks et al., 2006, 2009, 2011, 2021; Vignoles et al., 2021). Dans ce cadre, il est possible d’établir au moins quatre configurations du diagramme BAM (Peterson et al., 2011; Saupe et al., 2012; Figure 4): i) la configuration classique, dans laquelle keywords: 2021; anaïs; anderson; aux; avec; biais; calibration; ces; cette; choix; comme; compte; conditions; dans; dans la; de la; de variables; des; deux; distribution; donc; données; d’autres; d’occurrences; d’une; ecol; ecologiques; enm; entre; environnementales; est; et al; et des; et j.; et la; et les; et m.; et r.; exemple; figure; francophone; guide; géographique; la niche; les; l’aire; l’espèce; maxent; modeling; modelisation; models; modèle; niche; par; pas; peterson et; peut; points; pour; présence; que; qui; soberón; sont; species; sur; taxon; trop; une; variables; vignoles; warren; être cache: jbi-17593.pdf plain text: jbi-17593.txt item: #24 of 106 id: jbi-18270 author: Soberón, Jorge title: Biodiversity Informatics for Public Policy. The case of CONABIO in Mexico date: 2022 words: 8151 flesch: 58 summary: Still, some voices have insisted that, without biodiversity data, management would be difficult or impossible (Balmford et al. 2005). What are “biodiversity data” then, how can bio- diversity data be managed in accessible ways, and what can they be used for? keywords: biodiversity; biodiversity data; conabio; data; et al; information; mexican; mexico; monitoring; public; soberón; system cache: jbi-18270.pdf plain text: jbi-18270.txt item: #25 of 106 id: jbi-19 author: Guralnick, Robert P; Neufeld, David title: Challenges Building Online GIS Services to Support Global Biodiversity Mapping and Analysis: Lessons from the Mountain and Plains Database and Informatics project. date: 2005 words: 6509 flesch: 45 summary: A key component to sharing and eventually mapping biodiversity data is development of agreed upon standards (Figure 1 – community data standards) for accessing widely varying database structures, and associated metadata (Bowker, 2000). The project, which currently covers a 6-state region (Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming) in the United States, provides users with access to biodiversity data collected over the last 150 yr. keywords: access; analysis; application; biodiversity; collections; community; data; development; gis; informatics; mapping; mapstedi; online; species; tools cache: jbi-19.pdf plain text: jbi-19.txt item: #26 of 106 id: jbi-20516 author: Murguía-Romero, Miguel; Serrano-Estrada, Bernardo; Salazar, Gerardo A.; Sánchez-González, Gerardo E.; Melo Samper Palacios, Ubaldo; Gernandt, David S.; Magallón, Susana; Sánchez-Cordero, Víctor title: The IBdata Web System for Biological Collections: Design Focused on Usability date: 2024 words: 8067 flesch: 51 summary: In recent years, user interface design has benefited from the concept of usability (Bevan et al., 2016; ISO, 2018), understood as the degree to which specific users can use a system, product, or service to achieve specific objectives with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction. User interface design (UI design) keywords: biodiversity; collections; data; design; development; ibdata; information; interface; murguía; romero; search; system; usability; user; web cache: jbi-20516.pdf plain text: jbi-20516.txt item: #27 of 106 id: jbi-21511 author: Campbell, Peter title: Interpreting and Georeferencing the Concept of “Near” in Biodiversity Records date: 2024 words: 5593 flesch: 46 summary: An intermediate Voronoi diagram with one Voronoi polygon per point, but several Voronoi polygons per locality. Each unique fire station is labeled with a letter and has a corresponding Voronoi polygon. keywords: collection; description; diagram; georeferencing; localities; locality; near; point; polygons; uncertainty; voronoi cache: jbi-21511.pdf plain text: jbi-21511.txt item: #28 of 106 id: jbi-21742 author: Arias-Giraldo, Luis F.; Cobos, Marlon E. title: enmpa: An R package for ecological niche modeling using presence-absence data and generalized linear models date: 2024 words: 8517 flesch: 55 summary: Ecological niche modeling helps in this task, and this contribution introduces enmpa, an R package that facilitates calibration of ecological niche models via GLM. kuenm: an R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent. keywords: b12; data; enmpa; et al; i(b1; modeling; models; niche; presence; response; species; values; variables cache: jbi-21742.pdf plain text: jbi-21742.txt item: #29 of 106 id: jbi-21810 author: Marchetto, Elisa; Livornese, Martina ; Sabatini, Francesco Maria ; Tordoni, Enrico; Da Re, Daniele ; Lenoir, Jonathan ; Testolin, Riccardo ; Bacaro, Giovanni ; Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto ; Chiarucci, Alessandro ; Foody, Giles M. ; Gábor, Lukáš ; Groom, Quentin ; Iaria, Jacopo ; Malavasi, Marco ; Moudr´y, V´ıtˇezslav ; Santovito, Diletta ; Šímová, Petra; Zannini, Piero ; Rocchini, Duccio title: Addressing multiple facets of bias and uncertainty in continental scale biodiversity databases date: 2024 words: 12349 flesch: 56 summary: Sabatini, F. M., J. Lenoir, T. Hattab, E. A. Arnst, M. Chytrý, J. Marchetto et al. – Addressing Multiple Facets of Bias and Uncertainty in Continental-Scale Biodiversity Databases 71 Dengler, P. De Ruffray, S. M. Hennekens, U. Jandt, F. Jan- sen, B. Jiménez‐Alfaro, J. Kattge, A. Levesley, V. D. Pillar, O. Purschke, B. Sandel, F. Sultana, T. Aavik, S. Aćić, A. T. R. Acosta, E. Agrillo, M. Alvarez, I. Apostolova, M. A. S. Arfin Khan, L. Arroyo, F. Attorre, I. Aubin, A. Banerjee, M. Bauters, Y. Bergeron, E. Bergmeier, I. Biurrun, A. D. Bjorkman, G. Bonari, V. Bondareva, J. Brunet, A. Čarni, L. Casella, L. Cayuela, T. Černý, V. Chepinoga, J. Csiky, R. Ćušterevska, E. De Bie, A. L. De Gasper, M. De Sanctis, P. Dimopoulos, J. Dolezal, T. Dziuba, M. A. E. M. El‐Sheikh, B. Enquist, J. Ewald, F. Fazayeli, R. Field, M. Finckh, S. Gachet, A. Galán‐de‐Mera, E. Garbolino, H. Gholizadeh, M. Giorgis, V. Golub, I. G. Alsos, J. Grytnes, G. R. Guer- in, A. G. Gutiérrez, S. Haider, M. Z. Hatim, B. Hérault, G. Hinojos Mendoza, N. Hölzel, J. Homeier, W. Hubau, A. Indreica, J. A. M. Janssen, B. Jedrzejek, A. Jentsch, N. Jür- gens, Z. Kącki, J. Kapfer, D. N. Karger, A. Kavgacı, E. Ke- arsley, M. Kessler, L. Khanina, T. Killeen, A. Korolyuk, H. Kreft, H. S. Kühl, A. Kuzemko, F. Landucci, A. Lengyel, F. Lens, D. V. Lingner, H. Liu, T. Lysenko, M. D. Mahecha, C. Marcenò, V. Martynenko, J. E. Moeslund, A. Monteagudo Mendoza, L. Mucina, J. V. Müller, J. Munzinger, A. Naqine- zhad, J. Noroozi, A. Nowak, V. Onyshchenko, G. E. Over- beck, M. Pärtel, A. Pauchard, R. K. Peet, J. Peñuelas, A. Pérez‐Haase, T. Peterka, P. Petřík, G. Peyre, O. L. Phillips, V. Prokhorov, V. Rašomavičius, R. Revermann, G. Rivas‐ Torres, J. S. Rodwell, E. Ruprecht, S. Rūsiņa, C. Samimi, M. Schmidt, F. Schrodt, H. Shan, P. Shirokikh, J. Šibík, U. Šilc, P. Sklenář, Ž. Škvorc, B. Sparrow, M. G. Sperandii, Z. Stančić, J. Svenning, Z. Tang, C. Q. Tang, I. Tsiripidis, K. A. Vanselow, R. Vásquez Martínez, K. Vassilev, E. Vélez‐ Martin, R. Venanzoni, A. C. Vibrans, C. Violle, R. Virtanen, H. Von Wehrden, V. Wagner, D. A. Walker, D. M. Waller, H. Wang, K. Wesche, T. J. S. Whitfeld, W. Willner, S. K. Wiser, T. Wohlgemuth, S. Yamalov, M. Zobel, and H. Bru- elheide. 2021b. Lobo, J. M., J. Hortal, J. L. Yela, A. Millán, D. Sánchez-Fernán- dez, E. García-Roselló, J. González-Dacosta, J. Heine, L. González-Vilas, and C. Guisande. keywords: bias; biodiversity; cell; completeness; data; databases; distribution; et al; facets; grid; number; plots; sampling; species; taxonomic; uncertainty; values; vegetation cache: jbi-21810.pdf plain text: jbi-21810.txt item: #30 of 106 id: jbi-22332 author: Mastretta-Yanes, Alicia; Suárez, Sofía; Jordan, Rebecca; Hoban, Sean; da Silva, Jessica M.; Castillo-Reina, Luis; Heuertz, Myriam; Ishihama, Fumiko; Köppä, Viktoria; Laikre, Linda; MacDonald, Anna J.; Mergeay, Joachim; Paz-Vinas, Ivan; Segelbacher, Gernot; Knapps, Alicia; Rakoczy, Henry; Weiler, Amelie; Atsaves, Angelica; Cullmann, Kira; Bagnato, Simone; Forester, Brenna R. title: Guideline Materials and Documentation for the Genetic Diversity Indicators of the Monitoring Framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework date: 2024 words: 2612 flesch: 12 summary: Monitoring status and trends in genetic diversity for the Convention on Biological Diversity: An ongoing assess- ment of genetic indicators in nine countries. Multinational evaluation of genetic diversity indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. keywords: biodiversity; data; diversity; framework; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?zbcizu https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?zbcizu; indicators; species cache: jbi-22332.pdf plain text: jbi-22332.txt item: #31 of 106 id: jbi-22444 author: Otálora-Low, Martín; Urbina-Cardona, Nicolás; González-Méndez, Mauricio title: Enhancing Ecological Education: Utilizing Agent-Based Modeling to Simplify the Impacts of Deforestation on Amphibians date: 2024 words: 11421 flesch: 53 summary: In the model, the pasture group of species Otálora-Löw et al. – Enhancing Ecological Education 97 is represented by color Yellow, forest edge species by the blue color, and forest interior species by the green color. Classification of anuran species by forest edge response The mobile agents are the anura (frogs) and were configured based on the field abundances of the amphibian species registered by Palomino-Cuellar (2019) in 90 linear transects of 15m in length along a distance gradient from 120 m into the pastures and 400 m into the Amazon rainforest interior. keywords: agent; changes; class; conservation; edge; education; effect; energy; et al; figure; forest; habitat; model; native; reproduction; species; students; variables cache: jbi-22444.pdf plain text: jbi-22444.txt item: #32 of 106 id: jbi-22655 author: Luna, Sergio; Peña-Peniche, Alexander; Mendoza-Alfaro, Roberto title: Species distribution model accuracy is strongly influenced by the choice of calibration area date: 2024 words: 8457 flesch: 50 summary: Key words: species distribution models, ecological niche, calibration area, model accuracy, virtual species, simulations, Maxent Introduction Species distribution models (SDM) are widely used tools in ecology and conservation aimed at pre- dicting the potential distribution of a species based on its environmental requirements and occurrence data (Peterson and Soberón 2012). The present study has demonstrated that the area of calibration is one of the most important factors affecting the functional ac- curacy of species distribution models using Maxent. keywords: accuracy; area; calibration; calibration area; data; distribution; et al; model; model accuracy; niche; occurrence; species; species distribution cache: jbi-22655.pdf plain text: jbi-22655.txt item: #33 of 106 id: jbi-23179 author: Bauer, Amely; Paull, Sara; Guralnick, Robert; Campbell, Lindsay title: Deriving best use data from NEON for mosquito research applications: A practical guide with code date: 2025 words: 4501 flesch: 49 summary: We also outline a set of considerations specific to filtering NEON mosquito data by sex and for day or nighttime collections, highlighting factors that could introduce uncertainty to abundance estimates. We also outline a set of considerations or “best practices” specific to filtering NEON mosquito data by sex and for day or nighttime collections and highlight additional factors that could introduce uncertainty to abun- dance estimates during trapping, sorting, and taxonomic identification. keywords: data; field; mosquito; neon; set; species; trap cache: jbi-23179.pdf plain text: jbi-23179.txt item: #34 of 106 id: jbi-23622 author: Bogoni, Juliano; Souza Campos, Derick; Muniz, Claumir; Santos-Filho, Manoel; Poletto, Jéssica title: Welcome to the machine: A Pan-Continental overview machine learning applications in ecology and conservation date: 2025 words: 6938 flesch: 45 summary: Universal features of ecological processes exhibit mathematical properties that are inherently non-linear and complex, historically addressed only through mathemati- cal approximations (Bogoni et al., 2019; Conway, 1977; May, 1976). al. (1997), Kar et al. (2010), host-parasitoid interactions in Hassell (2000), and various other ecological dynamics, such as seed predation and dispersal (Bogoni et al., 2019) and species distribution (Bogoni and Tagliari, 2021; Tag- liari et al., 2023). keywords: biodiversity; bogoni; conservation; countries; country; data; distribution; ecology; et al; landscape; learning; machine; machine learning; methods; number; publications; species; studies cache: jbi-23622.pdf plain text: jbi-23622.txt item: #35 of 106 id: jbi-23641 author: Feng, Shi; Yang, Qinmin; Qiao, Huijie; Escobar, Luis E.; Yan, Xuan title: Stopover hotspots for migratory birds in North and Central America date: 2025 words: 12059 flesch: 49 summary: i i icontext cell ID cell ID cell ID cell ID cell ID− − + + Based on these, the aim of this work was to investigate the stopover hotspots during the bird migration process and identify alternative stopover sites to increase the site con- nectivity along bird migratory networks. keywords: america; americana; areas; bird; buteo; cell; central; crinitus; d cell; data; et al; haliaetus; leiothlypis; migration; migratory; myiarchus; network; north; pagerank; pandion; setophaga; setophaga petechia; sites; species; stopover; stopover hotspots; stopover sites cache: jbi-23641.pdf plain text: jbi-23641.txt item: #36 of 106 id: jbi-23725 author: Islam, Shariful; Castaneda-Guzman, Mariana; Soler-Tovar, Diego; Escobar, Luis title: Ecological Niche Modeling Applications to Infectious Diseases date: 2025 words: 11104 flesch: 42 summary: Campos et al. 2023; Feng et al. 2019b; Lippi et al. 2023a; Valavi et al. 2022). For example, Romero-Alvarez et al. (2023) assessed the potential spread of Oropouche virus in humans, and Escobar et al. (2017) identified areas of transmission risk for Heterosporis, a fish disease caused by the microsporidian parasite Heterosporis sutherlandae. keywords: analysis; applications; articles; biodiversity; biogeography; components; data; disease; distribution; ecology; enm; escobar; et al; extent; figure; global; https://doi; information; islam et; maxent; modeling; models; niche; number; peterson; predictor; resolution; section; shariful; spatial; species; studies; study; variables; worldclim cache: jbi-23725.pdf plain text: jbi-23725.txt item: #37 of 106 id: jbi-23794 author: Arvizu, María Daniela; Ruiz-Luna, Arturo; Yáñez-Rivera, Beatriz; Berlanga-Robles, César Alejandro; Cuervo-Robayo, Ángela Patricia title: Evaluation of the knowledge gaps in the reptile records of northwestern Mexico date: 2025 words: 9556 flesch: 50 summary: Number of reptile species records (RSR), number of cells with records (CWR), and number of cells by inventory complete- ness index (C) category by (a) biogeographic region (BR) and (b) physiographic province (PhP). Number of reptile species records (RSR), observed species richness (Sobs), number of species found once (a), number of spe- cies found twice (b), expected species richness (Sexp), and inventory completeness index (C) by biogeographic region, biogeographic province, and physiographic province of Nayarit. keywords: biodiversity; cells; completeness; data; et al; gaps; index; information; inventory; knowledge; mexico; nayarit; number; records; reptile; species; values cache: jbi-23794.pdf plain text: jbi-23794.txt item: #38 of 106 id: jbi-24120 author: Li, Wen; Peng, Yu; Zhang, Xiaoyue title: Functional diversity rather than species diversity can be accurately assessed by remote sensing in sandy grassland date: 2025 words: 11797 flesch: 62 summary: The resulting models exhibited high coefficients of de- termination (R2) and significant relationships between the indices and plant diversity indices (P < 0.05), indicating their potential as optimal indices (Table 1). Model validation Using the six identified optimal spectral and texture indices listed in Table 1, plant diversity indices were cal- culated for the 48 model validation plots using the spectral and texture dataset. keywords: data; diversity; environ; et al; grasslands; index; indices; land; plant; plant diversity; plant species; remote; remote sens; sensing; species; species diversity; texture; vegetation cache: jbi-24120.pdf plain text: jbi-24120.txt item: #39 of 106 id: jbi-24159 author: Cobos, Marlon; Carrion Bonilla, Carlos; Burneo, Santiago; Cook, Joseph; Dunnum, Jonathan; Frank, Lexi; Grover, Mackenzie; Hey, Alexander; Larsen, Peter; Wiens, Benjamin; Camacho, Alejandra; Colella, Jocelyn title: Field+Genomics Workshop: an initiative to build Nanopore sequencing capacity in field-based host-pathogen research date: 2025 words: 6933 flesch: 46 summary: Rudzki, E. N., Kuebbing, S. E., Clark, D. R., Gharaibeh, B., Janecka, M. J., Kramp, R., Kohl, K. D., Mastals- ki, T., Ohmer, M. E. B., Turcotte, M. M., and Rich- ards-Zawacki, C. L. (2022). On Day 2, workshop participants observed the process. keywords: country; data; et al; field; participants; pathogens; sampling; sequencing; wildlife; workshop cache: jbi-24159.pdf plain text: jbi-24159.txt item: #40 of 106 id: jbi-24329 author: dos Santos Vieira de Alencar, João Paulo; Liedtke, H. Cristoph; Meiri, Shai; Roll, Uri; Uetz, Peter; Nori, Javier title: letsRept: An R package to access the Global Reptile Database and facilitate taxonomic harmonization date: 2025 words: 10047 flesch: 43 summary: Its main functions allow users to retrieve the most up-to-date taxonomic information in real time, to compare lists of species names to current nomenclature, and to detect names that have been changed by either lumping or splitting, all through web scraping techniques. This is termed a ‘Linnean Shortfall’, which describes the discrepancy between the number of species that exist and the number of species that were formally described and are known to science to date (Brown and Lomolino, 1998; Hortal et al., 2015). keywords: 2025; alencar; check; chironius; database; date; date apostolepis; date atractus; date bothrops; date dipsas; date erythrolamprus; date micrurus; dipsas; dos; et al; helicops; information; letsrept; liotyphlops; names; nomenclature; package; paulo; rdb; reptile; santos; species; split; status; vieira cache: jbi-24329.pdf plain text: jbi-24329.txt item: #41 of 106 id: jbi-24398 author: Gamboa, Sara title: Review - The Game of Species. An Introduction to Biodiversity. date: 2025 words: 710 flesch: 45 summary: López ex- plains why biodiversity is unevenly distributed across the planet, why extinction is as important as speciation, and why ecological interactions create functional rather than merely numerical diversity. Pelagic Publishing, 2022 Sara Gamboa MapasLab, Ecology and Animal Biology Department, University of Vigo, Spain The Game of Species: An Introduction to Biodiversity offers a distinctive synthesis of evolutionary and ecologi- cal thought, presented through the powerful metaphor of a game. keywords: biodiversity; book cache: jbi-24398.pdf plain text: jbi-24398.txt item: #42 of 106 id: jbi-25 author: Page, Roderic D. M. title: Taxonomic names, metadata, and the Semantic Web date: 2006 words: 8195 flesch: 58 summary: However, I suggest that in the context of taxonomic names, the most compelling benefit of adopting these identifiers comes from the metadata associated with each LSID. –– Life Science Identifiers, metadata, taxonomic names, Semantic Web, RDF, triple stores. keywords: database; description; example; heterantha; lsid; metadata; names; poissonia; rdf; treebase; web cache: jbi-25.pdf plain text: jbi-25.txt item: #43 of 106 id: jbi-26 author: Hortal, Joaquín; Lobo, Jorge M title: A synecological framework for systematic conservation planning date: 2006 words: 18874 flesch: 53 summary: Elith, J., C. H. Graham, R. P. Anderson, M. Dudik, S. Ferrier, A. Guisan, R. J. Hijmans, F. Huettmann, J. R. Leathwick, A. Lehmann, J. Li, L. G. Lohmann, B. A. Loiselle, G. Manion, C. Moritz, M. Nakamura, Y. Nakazawa, J. M. M. Overton, A. T. Peterson, S. J. Phillips, K. Richardson, R. Scachetti-Pereira, R. E. Schapire, J. Soberon, S. Williams, M. S. Wisz, and N. E. Zimmermann. 2006. Unfortunately for this argument, the relevance of species in ecological processes is no better understood than is species distribution. keywords: 2004; approach; araújo; areas; biodiversity; biogeography; biology; change; conservation; data; distribution; ecology; et al; ferrier; framework; hortal; information; j. m.; lobo; modelling; planning; r. j.; r. m.; richness; species; species distribution; species richness; use; variables cache: jbi-26.pdf plain text: jbi-26.txt item: #44 of 106 id: jbi-29 author: Peterson, A. Townsend title: Uses and Requirements of Ecological Niche Models and Related Distributional Models date: 2006 words: 9604 flesch: 53 summary: Equilibrium of species' distributions with climate. Building statistical models to analyze species distributions. keywords: a. t.; change; climate; conservation; distributions; ecology; et al; journal; modeling; models; niche; peterson; peterson et; potential; species; uses cache: jbi-29.pdf plain text: jbi-29.txt item: #45 of 106 id: jbi-3 author: Canhos, Vanderlei Perez; Souza, Sidnei de; Giovanni, Renato De; Canhos, Dora Ann Lange title: Global Biodiversity Informatics: setting the scene for a "new world" of ecological forecasting date: 2004 words: 8838 flesch: 36 summary: Although GBIF intends eventually to incorporate all levels of biodiversity data (molecules to ecosystems), its initial phase is focusing on species- and specimen-level information. Working with its partners, GBIF is promoting development and adoption of standards and protocols for documenting and exchanging biodiversity data. keywords: access; biodiversity; biodiversity data; biodiversity information; canhos; collections; data; development; european; gbif; information; modeling; natural; network; new; peterson; research; science; species; specimen; tools; use cache: jbi-3.pdf plain text: jbi-3.txt item: #46 of 106 id: jbi-3314 author: Fernandez, Miguel; Blum, Stanley; Reichle, Steffen; Guo, Qinghua; Holzman, Barbara; Hamilton, Healy title: LOCALITY UNCERTAINTY AND THE DIFFERENTIAL PERFORMANCE OF FOUR COMMON NICHE-BASED MODELING TECHNIQUES date: 2009 words: 9000 flesch: 50 summary: While few studies have measured the sensitivity of distribution models to grid cell size in the environmental layers (Guisan et al. 2007), others have addressed the effect of remote sensing derived products as alternative environmental layers in ENM (Parra et al. 2004; Roura-Pascual et al. 2004; Peterson et al. 2006; Zimmermann et al. 2007; Bradley and Fleishman 2008; Buermann et al. 2008). The influence of spatial errors in species occurrence data used in distribution models. keywords: 2004; buffer; data; distribution; et al; kappa; locality; maps; method; modeling; models; niche; peterson; similarity; size; species; uncertainty cache: jbi-3314.pdf plain text: jbi-3314.txt item: #47 of 106 id: jbi-34 author: Sautter, Guido; Böhm, Klemens; Agosti, Donat title: A combining approach to find all taxon names (FAT) date: 2006 words: 8528 flesch: 63 summary: We could exclude word sequences containing words with a meaning that cannot occur in taxonomic names. In this paper, we present computational linguistics techniques and evaluate how they can help to extract taxonomic names automatically. keywords: classifier; data; genus; names; precision; rules; techniques; use; word cache: jbi-34.pdf plain text: jbi-34.txt item: #48 of 106 id: jbi-35 author: Neale, Sophie; Pullan, M. R.; Watson, M. F. title: Online Biodiversity Resources - Principles for Usability date: 2007 words: 6756 flesch: 54 summary: However in order to more fully develop our arguments we have studied the available documentation from a wide range of biodiversity portal projects (AlgaeBase, BioCASE, BioCISE, CABI Species Fungorum, EMBL reptile database, ENHSIN, ENBI, ERMS, ETI-WBD, ETI-WTD, Fauna Europaea, FishBase, GBIF, SpeciesBank, ILDIS, LINNE, NatureServe, Natuurloket, NBN, Species 2000 Europa and WADSIS). We have also been able to garner considerable information from two recent reports on user requirements analysis in biodiversity portal projects in which the design processes for a wide range of projects were obtained directly from the portal developers (Neale et al. 2005, Schalk and Heitmans 2005). keywords: analysis; biodiversity; data; design; development; end; gbif; portal; potential; project; requirements; success; tasks; user cache: jbi-35.pdf plain text: jbi-35.txt item: #49 of 106 id: jbi-36 author: Sautter, Guido; Böhm, Klemens; Agosti, Donat title: A Quantitative Comparison of XML Schemas for Taxonomic Publications date: 2007 words: 8090 flesch: 50 summary: Consequently, we expect this extension to affect the performance of Name Queries and Location Queries a little more than the aspect markup. Name Queries and Location Queries execute slower than with the plain aspect markup and with the morphologic index. keywords: concept; description; document; example; markup; queries; query; schemas; sdd; xml cache: jbi-36.pdf plain text: jbi-36.txt item: #50 of 106 id: jbi-3631 author: Nilsson-Örtman, Viktor; Nilsson, Anders N. title: USING TAXONOMIC REVISION DATA TO ESTIMATE THE GLOBAL SPECIES RICHNESS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF DIVING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE) date: 2010 words: 9426 flesch: 53 summary: Revision of the Nearctic Liodessus affinis (Say 1823) species group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini). To be able to use species description data for this purpose, we must have considered that: 1) the effort spent on taxonomic discovery and description varies greatly over time and between regions; 2) curves showing the rate of description plotted against time often displays a distinct ―lag phase‖ of low description rates in the initial stage; 3) the precise relationship between taxonomic effort and description rate is poorly understood, making it difficult to justify which model to fit to the data; 4) the description process frequently proceed in pronounced leaps marking the publication of important monographic works and revision which are impossible to predict using extrapolation techniques; 5) if there is no sign of decrease in the rate of description over NILSSON-ÖRTMAN & NILSSON - USING TAXONOMIC REVISION DATA TO ESTIMATE SPECIES RICHNESS 7 time, extrapolating techniques cannot be applied (White 1979). keywords: beetles; coleoptera; data; description; diversity; dytiscidae; estimate; genus; groups; new; nilsson; number; revision; revision data; richness; species; species richness cache: jbi-3631.pdf plain text: jbi-3631.txt item: #51 of 106 id: jbi-3664 author: Baskauf, Steven J title: ORGANIZATION OF BIODIVERSITY RESOURCES BASED ON THE PROCESS OF THEIR CREATION AND THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL ORGANISMS AS RESOURCE RELATIONSHIP NODES date: 2010 words: 12190 flesch: 29 summary: The creation of occurrence resources follows a pattern which can be used as the basis for organizing both the metadata associated with those resources and the relationships among the resources. Because this system is based on the way occurrence resources are created, it connects the resources in a logically consistent way and associates metadata properties with resources in an efficient manner. keywords: biodiversity; creation; dcterms; dwc; image; individual; information; metadata; occurrence; occurrence resource; organism; rdf; resource; resource="http://bigbotanicalgarden.org; specimen cache: jbi-3664.pdf plain text: jbi-3664.txt item: #52 of 106 id: jbi-37 author: Papes, Monica title: Ecological Niche Modeling Approaches to Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Birds in Central and Eastern Europe date: 2007 words: 6609 flesch: 49 summary: Because existing climate change data sets do not include all of the climatic parameters used in the analyses described above for predicting present species distributions, a second round of GARP models was run for predicting future (post-climate change) potential distributions, based only on annual mean minimum temperature, annual mean temperature, annual mean maximum temperature, annual mean precipitation, topographic index, slope, and aspect. To summarize CEE threatened and endangered bird species’ distributions, I used tools from the field of ecological niche modeling (ENM), and produced predictive models of species’ distributions based on known occurrences of species and raster GIS databases summarizing relevant environmental parameters across the CEE landscape. keywords: areas; bird; change; climate; conservation; data; distributions; europe; grassland; habitats; information; models; peterson; species cache: jbi-37.pdf plain text: jbi-37.txt item: #53 of 106 id: jbi-39 author: Teeffelen, Astrid van; Moilanen, Atte title: Where and how to manage: Optimal selection of conservation actions for multiple species. date: 2008 words: 8255 flesch: 52 summary: 1-13 1 WHERE AND HOW TO MANAGE: OPTIMAL SELECTION OF CONSERVATION ACTIONS FOR MULTIPLE SPECIES ASTRID The average value of all possible solutions, Fmean(X), corresponds to the mean expected value when conservation actions are randomly assigned to locations, under the budget constraint. keywords: actions; algorithm; benefit; conservation; function; management; planning; problem; representation; set; site; species; value cache: jbi-39.pdf plain text: jbi-39.txt item: #54 of 106 id: jbi-3927 author: Franz, Nico M title: BIOLOGICAL TAXONOMY AND ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS date: 2011 words: 15347 flesch: 59 summary: Vogt et al., 2009; Balhoff et al., 2010; Dahdul et al., 2010; Mungall et al., 2010), and taxonomy (Schulz et al., 2008). This is unfortunate because a thoroughgoing ontology for biological taxonomy could play the same overarching role in the bio- ontological domain that taxonomy plays in biology (Schulz et al., 2008). keywords: biological; concepts; data; et al; franz; information; level; names; ontologies; ontology; relationships; species; taxa; taxonomies; taxonomy cache: jbi-3927.pdf plain text: jbi-3927.txt item: #55 of 106 id: jbi-3986 author: Foley, Desmond title: A SPREADSHEET MAPPING APPROACH FOR ERROR CHECKING AND SHARING COLLECTION POINT DATA date: 2010 words: 2719 flesch: 45 summary: In the following I describe a method and provide examples for obtaining Excel chart maps from a shapefile, and from online maps. The use of country and global Excel chart maps allow the detection of some but not all of these possible georeference errors. keywords: chart; data; excel; latitude; longitude; map; points cache: jbi-3986.pdf plain text: jbi-3986.txt item: #56 of 106 id: jbi-3987 author: Baird, Roger Charles title: Leveraging the fullest potential of scientific collections through digitisation. date: 2010 words: 3846 flesch: 17 summary: Scientific collections can be characterized as assemblages of natural history specimens as well as human history artifacts that have been sufficiently documented, at the time of acquisition or through the course of analysis, as to have lasting value as part of a broad research infrastructure. HOW ARE SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS AND THEIR DATA USED? keywords: collections; data; digitization; global; information; infrastructure; knowledge; national; potential; research; science; species cache: jbi-3987.pdf plain text: jbi-3987.txt item: #57 of 106 id: jbi-3988 author: Berendsohn, Walter G.; Seltmann, Peggy title: Using geographical and taxonomic metadata to set priorities in specimen digitization date: 2010 words: 5487 flesch: 40 summary: In combination with observation and ecological data, collection data serve to identify global priority areas for conservation action based on taxonomic diversity (Vane-Wright et al. 1991; This is one of the key impediments to effective use of collection information outside the taxonomic community. keywords: biodiversity; capture; collections; data; digitization; herbarium; history; index; information; institutions; metadata; research; species; specimens cache: jbi-3988.pdf plain text: jbi-3988.txt item: #58 of 106 id: jbi-3989 author: Berendsohn, Walter G.; Chavan, Vishwas; Macklin, James title: Summary of Recommendations of the GBIF Task Group on the Global Strategy and Action Plan for the Digitisation of Natural History Collections date: 2010 words: 2279 flesch: 34 summary: Approaches to estimating the universe of natural history collection data. 3: GBIF must continue to improve and promote the global infrastructure used to mobilize digitized collection data 3.1. keywords: biodiversity; collections; data; digitization; gbif; history cache: jbi-3989.pdf plain text: jbi-3989.txt item: #59 of 106 id: jbi-3990 author: Chavan, Vishwas; BERENTS, PENNY; HAMER, MICHELLE title: TOWARDS DEMAND DRIVEN PUBLISHING: APPROCHES TO THE PRIORITISATION OF DIGITISATION OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS DATA date: 2010 words: 3580 flesch: 37 summary: We strongly advocate that the collection management and curatorial community develop an institutional or collection specific demand-driven prioritization plan for collection digitization on the basis of content needs of the major stakeholders and the user community. We further recommend that GBIF works with major natural history collection stakeholder communities to develop best practice guidelines for developing (a) institution or collection specific, demand-driven plans for collection digitization, and (b) national or thematic collection digitization strategy and action plans. keywords: biodiversity; collection; demand; digitization; history; metadata; species; specimens cache: jbi-3990.pdf plain text: jbi-3990.txt item: #60 of 106 id: jbi-3991 author: Ariño, Arturo H. title: Approaches to estimating the universe of natural history collections data date: 2010 words: 5799 flesch: 46 summary: 1: Plot of log of number of specimens from BCI collections against their rank when ordered by size. Distribution data Only 58.6% of BCI collections declare holdings. keywords: bci; biodiversity; collections; data; distribution; gbif; history; number; size; specimens; universe cache: jbi-3991.pdf plain text: jbi-3991.txt item: #61 of 106 id: jbi-3992 author: Vollmar, Ana; Macklin, James Alexander; Ford, Linda title: Natural History Specimen Digitization: Challenges and Concerns date: 2010 words: 11229 flesch: 37 summary: It discusses issues associated with having collections data available on-line, including how various collections have addressed the difficulty of ensuring feedback about their on-line data. While increasing remote access and on-line use of collections clearly has many benefits, at the same time, it presents difficulties in ensuring that feedback about collections is received, in particular that the work researchers do with collections data on-line make it back to the collection itself. keywords: challenges; collections; concerns; data; data entry; digitization; entry; funding; information; institutions; issues; minutes; projects; respondents; specimen; specimen digitization; staff; survey; technology; time; university; usa; work cache: jbi-3992.pdf plain text: jbi-3992.txt item: #62 of 106 id: jbi-3994 author: Scoble, Malcolm title: Rationale and Value of Natural History Collections Digitisation date: 2010 words: 2391 flesch: 41 summary: A compelling case for the use of natural history collection data in modeling, alone or, particularly, combined with other types of data, was made by Graham et al. (2004). Approaches to estimating the universe of natural history collections data. keywords: collections; data; digitization; history; metadata cache: jbi-3994.pdf plain text: jbi-3994.txt item: #63 of 106 id: jbi-4 author: Soberon, Jorge; Peterson, A. Townsend title: Interpretation of Models of Fundamental Ecological Niches and Species' Distributional Areas date: 2005 words: 5121 flesch: 49 summary: Whereas a mechanistic approach explicitly does not consider B, a correlative approach runs the risk of being biased by such interaction effects—still, it has the potential to take them into account explicitly via inclusion of the geography of other species in single-species models. Once such tools are developed, testing ecological niche models in ecological space will constitute an important step forward in improving the formal nature of ecological niche modeling. keywords: approach; distribution; factors; modeling; niche; region; species cache: jbi-4.pdf plain text: jbi-4.txt item: #64 of 106 id: jbi-40 author: Lobo, Jorge M title: More complex distribution models or more representative data? date: 2008 words: 2847 flesch: 50 summary: e-mail: mcnj117@mncn.csic.es Abstract.⎯ Distribution models for species are increasingly used to summarize species’ geography in conservation analyses. The influence of random selection of absences on distribution models was illustrated for a large Iberian dung beetle species (Copris hispanus) that occurs mainly in the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. keywords: absences; data; distribution; models; species cache: jbi-40.pdf plain text: jbi-40.txt item: #65 of 106 id: jbi-4019 author: King, Nicholas; Krishtalka, Leonard; Chavan, Vishwas title: Thoughts on implementation of the recommendations of the GBIF Task Group on a Global Strategy and Action Plan for Mobilisation of Natural History Collections Data date: 2010 words: 2939 flesch: 31 summary: Dr. Vishwas Chavan is the Senior Programme Officer for DIGIT (Digitization and Mobilization of Primary Biodiversity Data including natural history collections data). Digitization and mobilization of natural history collections data has been an integral part of the Work Programme of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) since its inception in 2001 (OECD, 1999 and GBIF, 2002). keywords: biodiversity; collections; data; gbif; group; history; information; publishing cache: jbi-4019.pdf plain text: jbi-4019.txt item: #66 of 106 id: jbi-4094 author: Ariño, Arturo H.; Chavan, Vishwas; Faith, Daniel P. title: Assessment of user needs of primary biodiversity data: Analysis, concerns, and challenges date: 2013 words: 12948 flesch: 53 summary: Options/Suboptions: No, I have not at all used GBIF mobilised data; No, not at all useful for my applications; Maybe, partially useful for my applications; Yes, completely useful for my applications; Please specify for what applications you use GBIF data: (Exclusive multiple choice) Q19. One-third of the respondents used GBIF data, either directly from the GBIF data portal, or similar access points. keywords: access; ariño; assessment; biodiversity; biodiversity data; data; figure; gbif; needs; occurrence; options; phylum; portal; respondents; responses; species; survey; table; types; user cache: jbi-4094.pdf plain text: jbi-4094.txt item: #67 of 106 id: jbi-4095 author: Endresen, Dag Terje Filip; Knüpffer, Helmut title: The Darwin Core extension for genebanks opens up new opportunities for sharing genebank datasets date: 2012 words: 11760 flesch: 49 summary: Efficient  Access  to  Distributed  Germplasm  Data   Sets  Stimulates  Novel  Uses   Research integrating genebank passport data (georeferenced occurrence data for the original collecting site) with phenotypic measurements (characterization and evaluation data) and with eco- climatic layers has opened new possibilities for a rational utilization of genebank materials (Bhullar et al., 2009; Endresen, 2010; Endresen et al., 2011; Bari et al., 2011; Endresen et al., 2012b) using the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) approach (Mackay and Street, 2004). The new Darwin Core extension for genebanks is required to enable the GBIF IPT to share a standard set of minimum terms for germplasm data sets. keywords: biodiversity; community; core; crop; darwin; darwin core; data; doi; dwc; endresen; eurisco; extension; gbif; genebank; germplasm; information; international; ipt; knüpffer; network; new; plant; resources; sets; terms; version cache: jbi-4095.pdf plain text: jbi-4095.txt item: #68 of 106 id: jbi-4117 author: Morris, Robert A; Barve, Vijay; Carausu, Mihail; Chavan, Vishwas; Cuadra, José; Freeland, Chris; Hagedorn, Gregor; Leary, Patrick; Mozzherin, Dimitry; Olson, Annette; Riccardi, Gregory; Teage, Ivan; Whitbread, Greg title: Discovery and publishing of primary biodiversity data associated with multimedia resources: The Audubon Core strategies and approaches date: 2013 words: 6720 flesch: 35 summary: Unlike observation or specimen data, however, the network loads and Figure 1: Relationships of multimedia resources to primary types of biodiversity resources, including some well-known example systems. The documentation supporting the submission to TDWG for ratification includes a normative specification of the Audubon Core as a set of multimedia resource metadata terms independent of any digital representation (http://terms.gbif.org/wiki/Audubon_Core_Term_ List_(1.0_normative) ). keywords: audubon; audubon core; biodiversity; core; gbif; information; metadata; morris; mrtg; multimedia; multimedia resources; resources; schema; terms; use cache: jbi-4117.pdf plain text: jbi-4117.txt item: #69 of 106 id: jbi-4124 author: Gaiji, Samy; Chavan, Vishwas; Ariño, Arturo H.; Otegui, Javier; Hobern, Donald; Sood, Rajesh; Robles, Estrella title: Content assessment of the primary biodiversity data published through GBIF network: Status, challenges and potentials date: 2013 words: 20545 flesch: 50 summary: Valid OCC Not valid OCC Null value % RAW Valid Matching 63,9% -- -- 63,9% Not matching -- 0,1% 8,6% 8,7% Not valid Matching -- 0,2% -- 0,2% Not matching 0,1% -- 0,4% 0,5% Null Matching -- -- 17,7% 17,7% Not matching 5,0% 3,9% -- 8,9% Total 69,1% 4,3% 26,7% 100,0% 31% Table 9. Zenaida macroura 2,270,891 (+4,9%) 0.7% 99.9% Sturnus vulgaris 2,171,136 (+17,2%) 0.7% 99.7% Passer domesticus 2,029,427 (+7.2%) 0.6% 99.0% Cardinalis cardinalis 1,779,316 (-8.9%) 0.5% 99.9% Picoides pubescens 1,776,269 (+6.2%) 0.5% 99.9% Junco hyemalis 1,731,413 (-0.2%) 0.5% 99.3% keywords: animalia; biodiversity data; class; content assessment; data; data records; date; december; distribution; et al; february; figure; gaiji et; gbif; gbif index; gbif network; grid; information; kingdom; names; number; observation; occurrences; plantae; records; species; table; time; total; year cache: jbi-4124.pdf plain text: jbi-4124.txt item: #70 of 106 id: jbi-4125 author: Otegui, Javier; Ariño, Arturo H.; Chavan, Vishwas; Gaiji, Samy title: On the dates of GBIF mobilised primary biodiversity records date: 2013 words: 5993 flesch: 58 summary: Joining data records published by the data publishers into this single data model entails a large amount of data mapping, checking, marking and manipulation. Figure 6 shows a plot of data records in the November 2010 version of the index for occurrences in the XX and XXI century. keywords: data; date; gbif; occ; publishers; raw; records; valid; year cache: jbi-4125.pdf plain text: jbi-4125.txt item: #71 of 106 id: jbi-4126 author: Faith, Dan; Collen, Ben; Ariño, Arturo; Patricia Koleff, Patricia Koleff; Guinotte, John; Kerr, Jeremy; Chavan, Vishwas title: Bridging the biodiversity data gaps: Recommendations to meet users’ data needs date: 2013 words: 10694 flesch: 50 summary: With the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), we recently conducted a content needs assessment survey to consolidate and synthesize major user needs regarding biodiversity data. The recent call by scientists for new efforts to “map the biosphere” (Wheeler et al. 2012) also highlighted the importance of biodiversity data for addressing many basic research question in biodiversity science. keywords: assessment; biodiversity; biodiversity data; data; ecosystem; et al; faith; gaps; gbif; global; information; needs; network; new; publishing; quality; recommendations; science; species; survey; types; use cache: jbi-4126.pdf plain text: jbi-4126.txt item: #72 of 106 id: jbi-4263 author: Coetzer, Willem title: A new era for specimen databases and biodiversity information management in South Africa date: 2012 words: 5946 flesch: 43 summary: We present observations and a commentary on the inherited legacy and current state of biodiversity information management in South African natural history museums, and make recommendations for the future. In this article we consider some of the challenges faced by the South African biodiversity community with respect to biodiversity information management, and emphasize the importance of adopting a more systematic and rigorous approach to formal biodiversity information management in South African natural history museums. keywords: african; biodiversity; biodiversity information; collections; data; database; history; information; management; museums; national; records; south; specify6; specimen cache: jbi-4263.pdf plain text: jbi-4263.txt item: #73 of 106 id: jbi-4300 author: Peterson, A. Townsend title: Niche Modeling - Model Evaluation date: 2012 words: 212 flesch: 32 summary: The focus is on two solutions to the challenge of model evaluation: a simply cumulative binomial approach that can be used with binary model outputs, and partial ROC analysis, which can be used with continuous model outputs. Among these aspects is that of model evaluation or validation. keywords: model cache: jbi-4300.pdf plain text: jbi-4300.txt item: #74 of 106 id: jbi-4326 author: Rödder, Dennis; Engler, Jan O. title: DISENTANGLING INTERPOLATION AND EXTRAPOLATION UNCERTAINTIES IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS: A NOVEL VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE SPATIAL VARIATION OF PREDICTOR VARIABLE COLINEARITY date: 2012 words: 6266 flesch: 45 summary: Assume that an ENM is developed within one part of the study region (training area, black bar) and subsequently projected onto the rest of the gradient. Using species distribution models in palaeobiogeography: A matter of data, predictors and concepts. keywords: area; correlation; enm; et al; model; peterson; predictors; range; species; structure; training; variables cache: jbi-4326.pdf plain text: jbi-4326.txt item: #75 of 106 id: jbi-46 author: cui, hong title: Converting Taxonomic Descriptions to New Digital Formats date: 2008 words: 12323 flesch: 59 summary: Biodiversity and other factors contribute to the rather skewed distributions of elements in description collections (see the appendix). In description collections, due to the diversities in living organisms, authorship, and editorial policies, the coverage of different organs are quite uneven, resulting in a very skewed distribution of training data for individual elements: for example, in the 310 FNA training examples, there were more than two hundred examples for “leaf blade” but zero for “tendril”. keywords: bank; collection; cui; descriptions; digital; elements; examples; learning; markup; martt; new; performance; rule; system; training; training examples; xml cache: jbi-46.pdf plain text: jbi-46.txt item: #76 of 106 id: jbi-4611 author: Talent, Nadia; Dickinson, Richard B.; Dickinson, Timothy A. title: Character Selection During Interactive Taxonomic Identification: “Best Characters” date: 2014 words: 6355 flesch: 52 summary: The character set and character states are usually carefully chosen and limited in number to save space. A polyclave can be difficult to use correctly, such as by novices who make frequent errors, or for polythetic taxa which are distinguished by possessing a majority of a set of character states, rather than by required states (Morse 1971, 1975). keywords: character; coefficient; dickinson; identification; information; keys; number; states; table; taxa; taxon cache: jbi-4611.pdf plain text: jbi-4611.txt item: #77 of 106 id: jbi-4717 author: Gobbett, David Lyon; Zerger, Andre title: PointSampler: A GIS Tool for Point Intercept Sampling of Digital Images date: 2014 words: 2793 flesch: 50 summary: SamplePoint (Booth et al. 2006) is a tool for image classification using a point intercept method and supports a large number of cover classes. Where large numbers of images are captured, either across a spatial extent, or at at intervals as a time-series, it may be appropriate to utilize automated image analysis methods such as supervised classification. keywords: classes; classification; cover; data; image; method; pointsampler; vegetation cache: jbi-4717.pdf plain text: jbi-4717.txt item: #78 of 106 id: jbi-4748 author: Mononen, Tero; Tegelberg, Riitta; Sääskilahti, Mira; Huttunen, Markku A.; Tähtinen, Marko; Saarenmaa, Hannu title: DigiWeb - a workflow environment for quality assurance of transcription in digitization of natural history collections date: 2014 words: 6167 flesch: 52 summary: When using a well-established imaging method for specimens, scientific expertise is particularly important for transcribing specimen data. Keywords – data entry, mass digitization INTRODUCTION Collections conserved by natural history museums are an important source of information on taxonomy, biodiversity and environmental change. keywords: collector; data; digitarium; digitization; digiweb; entry; information; project; quality; specimen; transcription; workflow cache: jbi-4748.pdf plain text: jbi-4748.txt item: #79 of 106 id: jbi-4801 author: Soberon, Jorge; Cavner, Jeff title: Indices of Biodiversity Pattern Based on Presence-Absence Matrices: A GIS Implementation date: 2015 words: 7685 flesch: 65 summary: 22-34 Finally, the covariance matrix between the species inhabiting sites j and k, and the covariance matrix between ranges of distribution of species h and i are, respectively: * * * * 1 1 1( ) 1 1 1( ) T T sites T T species S S S N N N ⎛ ⎞= − = −⎜ ⎟ Geographic range, turnover rate and scaling of species diversity. keywords: biodiversity; data; diversity; matrix; pam; range; sites; species; ω ω cache: jbi-4801.pdf plain text: jbi-4801.txt item: #80 of 106 id: jbi-4853 author: Giovanni, Renato De; Torres, Erik; Amaral, Rafael Burlamaqui; Blanquer, Ignacio; Rebello, Vinod; Canhos, Vanderlei Perez title: OMWS: A Web Service Interface for Ecological Niche Modelling date: 2015 words: 5472 flesch: 48 summary: Web services are web-based applications that support dynamic interactions with other software applications using open standards that include data formats like eXtensible Markup Language (XML) (World Wide Web Consortium, 2006) to transmit data over a network via Internet- based protocols. Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks (World Wide Web Consortium, 2004a). keywords: biodiversity; computing; data; enm; experiment; model; omws; operations; points; protocol; server; service; species; web; world cache: jbi-4853.pdf plain text: jbi-4853.txt item: #81 of 106 id: jbi-4914 author: Idohou, Rodrigue; Arino, Arturo; Assogbadjo, Achille; Glele Kakai, Romain; Sinsin, Brice title: DIVERSITY OF WILD PALMS (ARECACEAE) IN THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN: FINDING THE GAPS IN THE NATIONAL INVENTORY COMBINING FIELD AND DIGITAL ACCESSIBLE KNOWLEDGE date: 2015 words: 4971 flesch: 58 summary: Most ecosystems hosting palm species in the country appear to be well sampled, except some sections in the northern and western fringes, as well as remote areas with potentially difficult accessibility as seen in low road density (Figure 3), which do not seem to lack records but show low completeness. Decision table for levels of knowledge of palm species across Benin. keywords: areas; benin; biodiversity; completeness; data; informatics; inventory; knowledge; palms; species cache: jbi-4914.pdf plain text: jbi-4914.txt item: #82 of 106 id: jbi-4955 author: Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus Souza; Varela, Sara; González-Hernández, Javier; de Oliveira, Guilherme; Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F.; Terribile, Levi Carina title: EcoClimate: a database of climate data from multiple models for past, present, and future for macroecologists and biogeographers date: 2015 words: 10401 flesch: 56 summary: This suite of methods and ideas has been applied to diverse research purposes: guiding discovery of populations of known (Bourg et al., 2005; Guisan et al., 2006) and unknown (Raxworthy et al., 2003) species; understanding distributional dynamics under past (Banks et al., 2008a; 2008b) and future (Dormann, 2007; Anderson, 2013) climates; anticipating climate change impacts on agricultural (Fraga et al., 2013) and natural (Nabout et al., 2011) extraction; mapping invasion risk (Peterson, 2003; Jiménez-Valverde et al., 2011), pest distributions (Venette et al., 2010; Estay et al., 2014), and disease trasmission (Peterson, 2014); estimating population parameters (Tôrres et al., 2012; Lima-Ribeiro and Diniz- Filho, 2013; Thuiller et al., 2014), species richness (Wisz and Rahbeck, 2007; Lima- Ribeiro et al., 2013b), and community composition (Pellissier et al., 2012); analyzing biotic interactions (Anderson et al., 2002; Wheeler et al., 2015); illuminating patterns and processes of diversification and speciation (Silva et al., 2014); characterizing dispersal (Génard and Lescourret, 2013; Saltré et al., 2015); highlighting extinction (Nogués-Bravo et al., 2008; Lima-Ribeiro et al., 2013a); testing niche conservatism (Martínez-Meyer et al., 2004; 2006; Peterson and Nyári, 2007; Jakob et al., 2010) and phylogeographic hypotheses (Collevatti et al., 2013b; 2015; Alvarado-Serrano and Knowles, 2014); establishing historical refugia (Waltari et al., 2007; Terribile et al., 2012); identifying biodiversity hotspots (Carnaval and Moritz, 2008; Carnaval et al., 2009); choosing appropriate areas for biodiversity conservation (Nobrega and De Marco, 2011; Williams et al., 2013) and translocation (Martínez-Meyer et al., 2006; Richmond et al., 2010); etc. 1-­‐12   climate change; to understand past extinction events (Lima-Ribeiro et al., 2013a); and to test hypotheses concerning population dynamics (Barrientos et al., 2014), evolutionary processes (Araújo et al., 2013; Saupe et al., 2014), and ecological dynamics (Martínez-Meyer et al., 2004; Martínez-Meyer and Peterson, 2006). keywords: biodiversity; change; climate; conditions; data; downscaling; ecoclimate; et al; future; layers; model; modeling; niche; past; precipitation; resolution; simulations; species; temperature; text; time; townpeterson; variables cache: jbi-4955.pdf plain text: jbi-4955.txt item: #83 of 106 id: jbi-4959 author: Wabuyele, Emily; Kang’ethe, Simon; Newton, Leonard E. title: Digital Knowledge of Kenyan Succulent Flora and Priorities for Future Inventory and Documentation date: 2016 words: 5463 flesch: 51 summary: Data corresponding to succulent plant species were prioritised for digitisation as a thematic group of interest in conservation and trade across the region; as such, we estimate that 90% of succulent plant records at the EA have now been captured and are treated in this report. In addition, probable key sites of diversity and endemism for succulent plant species (the arid and semi-arid regions) are hard to access, both logistically and politically. keywords: biodiversity; country; data; flora; grid; informatics; inventory; kenya; knowledge; nairobi; plant; sites; species; squares cache: jbi-4959.pdf plain text: jbi-4959.txt item: #84 of 106 id: jbi-5 author: Chapman, Arthur D; Muñoz, Mauro E.S.; Koch, Ingrid title: Environmental Information: Placing Biodiversity Phenomena in an Ecological and Environmental Context date: 2005 words: 12354 flesch: 52 summary: Often these transition zones are not very well delineated in environmental data layers, particularly if the scale is coarse. CONCLUSION Selection of environmental data layers is among the most important aspects of ecological niche modeling. keywords: accuracy; areas; biodiversity; cell; climate; data; dem; error; example; grid; hutchinson; information; layers; methods; modeling; models; points; scale; soil; species; surface; use; vegetation cache: jbi-5.pdf plain text: jbi-5.txt item: #85 of 106 id: jbi-5007 author: KOFFI, Kouao Jean; KOUASSI, Akossoua Faustine; ADOU YAO, Constant Yves; BAKAYOKO, Adama; IPOU, Ipou Joseph; BOGAERT, Jan title: THE PRESENT STATE OF BOTANICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE date: 2015 words: 4896 flesch: 66 summary: Le climat de la Côte d’Ivoire. Microsoft Word - Koffi_proofs.docx Biodiversity Informatics, 10, 2015, 56-64   56   THE PRESENT STATE OF BOTANICAL KNOWLEDGE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE KOUAO JEAN KOFFI1*, AKOSSOUA FAUSTINE KOUASSI2, CONSTANT YVES ADOU YAO3, ADAMA BAKAYOKO1, IPOU JOSEPH IPOU2, JAN BOGAERT4 1University Nangui Abrogoua, UFR-SN, 02 B. P. 801 Abidjan 02, Côte d’Ivoire. keywords: assi; biodiversity; country; côte; côte d’ivoire; data; database; d’ivoire; records; species cache: jbi-5007.pdf plain text: jbi-5007.txt item: #86 of 106 id: jbi-5008 author: Peterson, A. Townsend; Ingenloff, Kate title: Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum, version 1.2 date: 2016 words: 3277 flesch: -10 summary: Writing Proposals Biodiversity Data Capture and Initial Enrichment  Biodiversity Data Capture  Welcome to Ghana  Symbiota  Software Highlight: Specify  Data Capture: Strategy  Data Capture from Images  Data Capture: Demonstration  keywords: biodiversity; biodiversity data; biodiversity informatics; bitc; conservation; course; curriculum; data; demonstration; example; field; georeferencing; informatics; introduction; inventories; software; species cache: jbi-5008.pdf plain text: jbi-5008.txt item: #87 of 106 id: jbi-5053 author: Ganglo, Jean Cossi; Kakpo, Sunday Berlioz title: Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of Plants of Benin and Priorities for Future Inventory and Data Discovery date: 2016 words: 7112 flesch: 58 summary: Finally, we explored, in a preliminary manner, the impacts of absence of roads, waterways, and protected areas on data completeness. To be more consistent with the status and reality of data completeness of the country, we considered grid cells as best- known when N ≥ 200 records and C ≥ 0.8. keywords: benin; biodiversity; cells; completeness; country; data; et al; grid; informatics; inventory; objects; percentage; records; species cache: jbi-5053.pdf plain text: jbi-5053.txt item: #88 of 106 id: jbi-5860 author: Asase, Alex; Peterson, A. Townsend title: Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge of the Plants of Ghana date: 2016 words: 4510 flesch: 57 summary: Recent efforts within Ghana have digitized >90% of primary biodiversity data records associated with specimen sheets in Ghanaian herbaria; additional herbarium data are available from other institutions via biodiversity informatics initiatives such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. These initiatives have contributed to massive accumulation and serving of primary biodiversity data records via the Internet: e.g., GBIF currently serves >648M primary data records on its data portal (accessed 13 May 2016). keywords: biodiversity; country; dak; data; ghana; grid; informatics; plants; records; species cache: jbi-5860.pdf plain text: jbi-5860.txt item: #89 of 106 id: jbi-5886 author: Kelly, Maggi title: Rescuing and Sharing Historical Vegetation Data for Ecological Analysis: The California Vegetation Type Mapping Project date: 2016 words: 13303 flesch: 58 summary: Conlisk et al. (2012) used VTM plot data and herbarium records with the species distribution modeling algorithm Maxent (Phillips et al. 2006) to find locations and carrying capacities of metapopulation patches of Quercus engelmannii in eastern San Diego County. Currently, most papers using VTM plot data explore the full complement of scale and detail. keywords: biodiversity; california; change; climate; collection; communities; data; distribution; ecol; et al; fire; forest; future; informatics; land; maps; photographs; plots; species; thorne; use; vegetation; vtm; wieslander cache: jbi-5886.pdf plain text: jbi-5886.txt item: #90 of 106 id: jbi-6 author: Silva, Marcos R. title: Bioinformatics, the Clearing-House Mechanism and the Convention on Biological Diversity date: 2004 words: 4406 flesch: 33 summary: Actions to achieve this would include: a) disseminating information in appropriate formats for potential users; b) using best-practice in information management and dissemination; c) supporting the development and implementation of tools, standards and protocols for data exchange that allow more effective sharing of information; d) establishing inter-operable electronic databases that allow for more effective integration of information from multiple sources in real time; e) improving use of the Internet as a tool for access and dissemination of biodiversity data, including increasing access to the Internet; SILVA – THE BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION AND BIOINFORMATICS 26 f) reviewing the adequacy of the existing data, assessing gaps and the action that needs to be taken to fill them.” These goals include facilitating development and implementation of approaches, technologies, and best practices necessary to access, share, and disseminate biodiversity data at the species, ecosystem, and genetic levels via the Internet. keywords: bch; biodiversity; bioinformatics; cbd; chm; convention; data; information; parties cache: jbi-6.pdf plain text: jbi-6.txt item: #91 of 106 id: jbi-6507 author: Cuervo-Robayo, Angela P.; Escobar, Luis E; Osorio-Olvera, Luis A.; Nori, Javier; Varela, Sara; Martinez-Meyer, Enrique; Velasquez-Tibata, Jorge; Rodriguez-Soto, Clarita; Munguia, Mariana; Castaneda-Alvarez, Nora P.; Lira-Noriega, Andres; Soley-Guardia, Mariano; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Peterson, A. Townsend title: Introducción a los Análisis Espaciales con Énfasis en Modelos de Nicho Ecológico date: 2017 words: 8291 flesch: 49 summary: 4Departamento de Matemáticas de la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México. Resumen.—En 2016 implementamos un sistema de seminarios de enseñanza, en formato de videos libres y accesibles desde internet, con la finalidad de dar a conocer de forma sencilla y en castellano, las bases conceptuales y aplicaciones de los modelos de nicho ecológico en estudios de ecología, conservación biológica, epidemiología y agrobiodviersidad, así como su implementación para el diseño de políticas públicas de los recursos naturales. keywords: ambientales; análisis; biodiversidad; biodiversity; cambio; como; con; conservación; datos; de la; de los; de nicho; distribución; ecológico; en el; entre; especies; este; et al; información; las; los; maxent; modeling; modelos; modelos de; más; méxico; nicho; nori; para; para la; permite; peterson; por; que; soberón; son; una; uso; variables cache: jbi-6507.pdf plain text: jbi-6507.txt item: #92 of 106 id: jbi-6522 author: Rees, Tony; Vandepitte, Leen; Decock, Wim; Vanhoorne, Bart title: IRMNG 2006–2016: 10 Years of a Global Taxonomic Database date: 2017 words: 25599 flesch: 55 summary: Such names are retained in IRMNG since they may appear in published literature and/or other taxonomic data compila- tions and may be required for correct assignment of accompanying information; whenever possible they are pointed to the current accepted name for the same taxon, when known. A small number of genus names (approx. 10,000) has entered IRMNG from sources not considered “trusted” in this sense, such as museum databases or third-party compilations, and do not match entries in major nomenclators on a first pass; such names are identified as candidates for further investigation and will either be accepted or rejected for continued IRMNG use in due course. keywords: biodiversity; content; current; data; es n; example; family; fossil; genera; genus; index; informatics; irmng; irmng data; level; life; marine; names; new; present; sources; species; species names; status; system; taxa; taxon; time; tio; version; vliz; web; worms cache: jbi-6522.pdf plain text: jbi-6522.txt item: #93 of 106 id: jbi-6646 author: Mika, Katherine A.; De Veer, Joseph; Rinaldo, Constance title: Crowdsourcing Natural History Archives: Tools for Extracting Transcriptions and Data date: 2017 words: 7821 flesch: 37 summary: Transcription projects for collections are time consuming, intellectually intensive, and expensive for an organization to 60 MIKA ET AL. – CROWDSOURCING NATURAL HISTORY ARCHIVES facilitate. EARLY TOOLS Two early platforms, Scripto7, developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (RRCHNM) and Transcribe Bentham8 shaped the landscape for successful transcription projects. keywords: archives; bhl; biodiversity; collections; content; crowdsourcing; data; digital; field; heritage; history; information; items; library; manuscript; notes; projects; research; text; transcription cache: jbi-6646.pdf plain text: jbi-6646.txt item: #94 of 106 id: jbi-6707 author: Sainge, Moses Nsanyi; Onana, Jean-Michel; Nchu, Felix; Kenfack, David; Peterson, A. Townsend title: Botanical Sampling Gaps Across the Cameroon Mountains date: 2017 words: 3679 flesch: 60 summary: km2, extending from Mt Cameroon (4095 m) and Mt Etinde (commonly called Small Mt Cameroon, 1474 m) on the coast, through a string of peaks, extending to the north and east into the interior (Figure 1). Diagrammatic representation of the Cameroon Mountain chain, extending from islands in the Gulf of Guinea to the coastal Mt Cameroon, and inland along the Cameroon-Nigeria border. keywords: areas; cameroon; cheek; data; et al; mountains; national; plants; region; sites cache: jbi-6707.pdf plain text: jbi-6707.txt item: #95 of 106 id: jbi-6744 author: Lowenberg Neto, Peter title: A metric to quantify analogous conditions and rank environmental layers date: 2018 words: 5267 flesch: 54 summary: It is expected that heterogeneous layers would generate better correlational geographic distributional predictions than analogous variables, even though this hypothesis remains untested. peter.lowenberg@unila.edu.br Abstract.—Analogous conditions in environmental variables are expected because environments are spatially autocorrelated and often present similar combinations over geographic space. keywords: conditions; distance; extent; frequency; modal; range; space; variables cache: jbi-6744.pdf plain text: jbi-6744.txt item: #96 of 106 id: jbi-6975 author: Lavariega, Mario César title: An open-access platform for camera-trapping data date: 2018 words: 4856 flesch: 52 summary: Data Acquisition and management software for camera trap data: a case study from the TEAM network. Since analyses of wildlife data are essential to conservation and management efforts (Meffee et al. 2002), open access to biodiversity data becomes crucial (Molloy 2011, Thessen and Patterson 2011, Hanssen et al. 2014). keywords: areas; biodiversidad; biodiversity; camera; community; conservation; data; et al; mexico; monitoring; oaxaca; pcmb; photographs; platform; projects; species; trap; wildlife cache: jbi-6975.pdf plain text: jbi-6975.txt item: #97 of 106 id: jbi-7 author: Stein, Barbara R; Wieczorek, John R. title: Mammals of the World: MaNIS as an example of data integration in a distributed network environment date: 2004 words: 5648 flesch: 35 summary: This gazetteer was created by combining locality data from all participating institutions at the outset of the project into a single gazetteer database with an online query interface for browsing and downloading tab-delimited locality records16. This will mean that new specimens added to their collections will have locality data of quality comparable to that which has been achieved in the georeferencing for the MaNIS project. keywords: collections; community; data; georeferencing; history; institutions; manis; museum; natural; network; participants; project; specimen; university cache: jbi-7.pdf plain text: jbi-7.txt item: #98 of 106 id: jbi-7036 author: Merckx, Jonas; Van Roie, Martijn; Gómez-Zurita, Jesús; Dekoninck, Wouter title: From theory to practice: a photographic inventory of museum collections to optimize collection management date: 2018 words: 5979 flesch: 57 summary: We describe the results of the digitization of Calligrapha specimens in the form of a specimen list and dorsal photographs of the specimens, as well as an assess- ment of the monetary cost avoided with the use of specimen digitization and give an estimation of the time needed for each step of the process. specimen digitization a valuable tool in facilitating museum collection management. keywords: calligrapha; chapuis; coll; collection; digitization; duvivier; fig; identification; restité; species; specimen; stål cache: jbi-7036.pdf plain text: jbi-7036.txt item: #99 of 106 id: jbi-7108 author: Asase, Alex; Schwinger, Gladys O title: Assessment of biodiversity data holdings and user data needs for Ghana date: 2018 words: 5784 flesch: 47 summary: Biodiversity data include data on species inventories, distributions, images, sounds, specimens, and ecological interactions, as well as descriptions of datasets (i.e., metadata) (Costello et al., 2013). Biodiversity data are basically of two kinds (i.e., primary and secondary), and can be numerical, categorical (e.g., species or place names), or media- based (Costello et al., 2013). keywords: asase; biodiversity; biodiversity data; data; digitization; ghana; informatics; mobilization; national; needs; organizations; peterson; species; user cache: jbi-7108.pdf plain text: jbi-7108.txt item: #100 of 106 id: jbi-7600 author: Cobos, Marlon E; Jiménez, Laura; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia; Romero-Alvarez, Daniel; Simoes, Marianna title: Sample data and training modules for cleaning biodiversity information date: 2018 words: 1039 flesch: 56 summary: Key words: accuracy, data cleaning, error, redundancy, precision, primary biodiversity data The availability and management of large on- line biodiversity databases has become an exciting, although challenging, step in the development of an authoritative and comprehensive basis for biodiver- sity knowledge. Primary biodiversity data have become much more accessible in recent decades, with a major tran- sition from recalcitrance (Graves 2000) to enthusi- asm. keywords: biodiversity; cleaning; data; information cache: jbi-7600.pdf plain text: jbi-7600.txt item: #101 of 106 id: jbi-8 author: Martinez-Meyer, Enrique title: Climate Change and Biodiversity: Some Considerations in Forecasting Shifts in Species' Potential Distributions date: 2005 words: 7445 flesch: 48 summary: Ecological niche models, predicted geographic distributions, and climate change effects. Distribution model of the Volcano Rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) in central Mexico, showing raw predictions for (A) the present and (B) in 2050. keywords: 2001; change; climate; climate change; data; distribution; et al; future; modeling; models; niche; potential; species cache: jbi-8.pdf plain text: jbi-8.txt item: #102 of 106 id: jbi-8189 author: Peterson, A. Townsend; Anderson, Robert P; Cobos, Marlon E; Cuahutle, Martín; Cuervo-Robayo, Angela P; Escobar, Luis E; Fernández, Marc; Jiménez-García, Daniel; Lira-Noriega, Andrés; Lobo, Jorge M; Machado-Stredel, Fernando; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique; Nuñez-Penichet, Claudia; Nori, Javier; Osorio-Olvera, Luis; Rodríguez, María Teresa; Rojas-Soto, Octavio; Romero-Álvarez, Daniel; Soberón, Jorge; Varela, Sara; Yañez-Arenas, Carlos title: Curso Modelado de Nicho Ecológico, Version 1.0 date: 2019 words: 4014 flesch: -17 summary: Palabras más frecuentes encontradas en las preguntas de los participantes del curso de Modelado de Nicho Ecológico. Resumen del curso de Modelado de Nicho Ecológico, Versión 1.0, incluyendo los temas principales, título espe- cífico, enlaces para las versiones en formato .pdf, .mp3, y .mp4, keywords: biodiversity; curso; del; ecología; enlace; las; los; modelado; mp3; mp4; mp4 enlace; nicho; para; pdf; pdf mp3; peterson; por; preguntas; que; respuestas; todos; townsend; una; yt mp4 cache: jbi-8189.pdf plain text: jbi-8189.txt item: #103 of 106 id: jbi-9 author: Sánchez-Cordero, Víctor; Cirelli, Verónica; Munguial, Mariana; Sarkar, Sahotra title: Place prioritization for biodiversity content using species ecological niche modeling date: 2005 words: 6218 flesch: 39 summary: Recent studies proposing networks of conservation areas for improving biodiversity conservation include plants and birds in Norway (Saetersdal et al. 1993), plants (Willis et al. 1996), and birds (Godown and Peterson 2000; Fairbanks et al. 2001) in South Africa and the United States, and terrestrial vertebrates in the United States (Csuti et al. 1997). To illustrate these points, we (1) predict distributions under current and future deforestation scenarios for the Mexican endemic mammal Dipodomys phillipsii, and show how areas for restoration may be selected; and (2) propose conservation areas by combining nonvolant mammal distributional predictions as biodiversity surrogates with place prioritization procedures, to connect decreed natural protected areas in a region holding exceptional biodiversity: the Transvolcanic Belt in central Mexico. keywords: areas; biodiversity; conservation; cordero; distributions; et al; margules; nacional; peterson; place; prioritization; sarkar; species; sánchez cache: jbi-9.pdf plain text: jbi-9.txt item: #104 of 106 id: jbi-9786 author: Owens, Hannah Lois; Guralnick, Robert title: climateStability: An R package to estimate climate stability from time-slice climatologies date: 2019 words: 3564 flesch: 52 summary: In particular, researchers have focused on climate stability as a key variable that can drive expected patterns of richness, phylogenetic diversity and functional diversity. Finally, climate stability is the product of individual climate variable stability estimates. keywords: climate; climate stability; dataset; estimates; slices; species; stability; temperature; time cache: jbi-9786.pdf plain text: jbi-9786.txt item: #105 of 106 id: jbi-9798 author: Peterson, A. Townsend; Soberón, Jorge; Ramsey, Janine; Osorio-Olvera, Luis title: Co-occurrence Networks do not Support Identification of Biotic Interactions date: 2020 words: 6615 flesch: 55 summary: Data fitness for use in distribution modelling: Are species occurrence data in global online reposito- ries fit for modeling species distributions? We assess a body of work that has attempted to use co-occurrence networks to infer the existence and type of biotic interactions between species. keywords: biodiversity; data; ecology; epsilon; et al; interactions; networks; occurrence; peterson; species; stephens cache: jbi-9798.pdf plain text: jbi-9798.txt item: #106 of 106 id: jbi-9815 author: Stephens, Christopher Rhodes; Gonzalez-Salazar, Constantino; Villalobos, Maricarmen; Marquet, Pablo title: Can Ecological Interactions be Inferred from Spatial Data? date: 2020 words: 33020 flesch: 56 summary: We can compare and contrast abiotic with biotic variables, or use different groups of biotic variables, grouped by any criterion we choose (given the data is to hand), such as by taxonomic label, or phenotype or geno- type or, by ecological interaction labels or, indeed, whatever we choose. The characterisation and quantification of ecological interactions, and the construction of species distributions and their associated ecological niches, is of fundamental theoretical and practical importance. keywords: bobcat; case; data; distribution; ensemble; et al; example; factors; hypothesis; interaction; labels; level; micro; model; niche; niche variables; occurrence; predator; presence; prey; prey species; relative; set; species; species distribution; stephens; stephens et; use; variables cache: jbi-9815.pdf plain text: jbi-9815.txt