A new R package to parse plant species occurrence records into unique collection events efficiently reduces data redundancy.
Digital duplicates
Gatherings
Global biodiversity information facility
Myrtaceae
Species taxonomic names
Synonyms
Taxonomic inflation
World checklist of vascular plants
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 Mar 2024
05 Mar 2024
Historique:
received:
08
11
2023
accepted:
02
03
2024
medline:
6
3
2024
pubmed:
6
3
2024
entrez:
5
3
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Biodiversity data aggregators, such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) suffer from inflation of the number of occurrence records when data from different databases are merged but not fully reconciled. The ParseGBIF workflow is designed to parse duplicate GBIF species occurrence records into unique collection events (gatherings) and to optimise the quality of the spatial data associated with them. ParseGBIF provides tools to verify and standardize species scientific names according to the World Checklist of Vascular Plants taxonomic backbone, and to parse duplicate records into unique 'collection events', in the process compiling the most informative spatial data, where more than one duplicate is available, and providing crude estimates of taxonomic and spatial data quality. When GBIF occurrence records for a medium-sized vascular plant family, the Myrtaceae, were processed by ParseGBIF, the average number of records useful for spatial analysis increased by 180%. ParseGBIF could therefore be valuable in the evaluation of species' occurrences at the national scale in support for national biodiversity plans, identification of plant areas important for biodiversity, sample bias estimation to inform future sampling efforts, and to forecast species range shifts in response to global climate change.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38443673
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-56158-3
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-56158-3
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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