Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species
Essential biodiversity variables (EBV) are information products for assessing biodiversity change. Species populations EBVs are one class of EBVs that can be used to monitor the spread of invasive species. However, systematic, reliable, repeatable procedures to process primary data into EBVs do not...
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| author | Alex R Hardisty Lee Belbin Donald Hobern Melodie A McGeoch Rebecca Pirzl Kristen J Williams W Daniel Kissling |
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| description | Essential biodiversity variables (EBV) are information products for assessing biodiversity change. Species populations EBVs are one class of EBVs that can be used to monitor the spread of invasive species. However, systematic, reliable, repeatable procedures to process primary data into EBVs do not yet exist, and environmental research infrastructures still must improve their capabilities to deliver EBV data products. Here, we tested the ability of two mature biodiversity data infrastructures, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Atlas of Living Australia, to cooperatively produce EBV data products for three alien invasive species. We detailed workflow steps to discover, filter, retrieve and prepare the primary data before evaluating species’ distributional changes. The two data infrastructures were able to execute several workflow steps, but external tools, third-party sources and expert judgement were required, and a repeatable workflow was difficult to establish. Nevertheless, the resulting data products revealed strong range expansions for the invasive species, demonstrating the policy-relevant information about global environmental change that can be provided by EBV data products. Our results show that more coordination between infrastructure providers is needed to efficiently produce EBV-ready data products for invasion monitoring in a repeatable fashion. Addressing these issues will allow improved tracking of invasive species range dynamics and hence monitoring of ongoing global biodiversity change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d24f59438ea461d8c4c4f1d7ae6b3032023-08-09T14:40:54ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262019-01-0114202500510.1088/1748-9326/aaf5dbResearch infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive speciesAlex R Hardisty0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310Lee Belbin1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8900-6203Donald Hobern2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-4016Melodie A McGeoch3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3388-2241Rebecca Pirzl4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-0736Kristen J Williams5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7324-5880W Daniel Kissling6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7274-6755School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University , Queens Buildings, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United KingdomThe Atlas of Living Australia, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 København Ø, DenmarkSchool of Biological Sciences, Monash University , Clayton 3800, Vic, AustraliaThe Atlas of Living Australia, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Knowledge and Services Program, CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaBiodiversity and Ecosystem Knowledge and Services Program, CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaInstitute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam , PO Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The NetherlandsEssential biodiversity variables (EBV) are information products for assessing biodiversity change. Species populations EBVs are one class of EBVs that can be used to monitor the spread of invasive species. However, systematic, reliable, repeatable procedures to process primary data into EBVs do not yet exist, and environmental research infrastructures still must improve their capabilities to deliver EBV data products. Here, we tested the ability of two mature biodiversity data infrastructures, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Atlas of Living Australia, to cooperatively produce EBV data products for three alien invasive species. We detailed workflow steps to discover, filter, retrieve and prepare the primary data before evaluating species’ distributional changes. The two data infrastructures were able to execute several workflow steps, but external tools, third-party sources and expert judgement were required, and a repeatable workflow was difficult to establish. Nevertheless, the resulting data products revealed strong range expansions for the invasive species, demonstrating the policy-relevant information about global environmental change that can be provided by EBV data products. Our results show that more coordination between infrastructure providers is needed to efficiently produce EBV-ready data products for invasion monitoring in a repeatable fashion. Addressing these issues will allow improved tracking of invasive species range dynamics and hence monitoring of ongoing global biodiversity change.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf5dbalien invasive speciesbiodiversity informaticsspecies distributionessential biodiversity variablesinfrastructureworkflow |
| spellingShingle | Alex R Hardisty Lee Belbin Donald Hobern Melodie A McGeoch Rebecca Pirzl Kristen J Williams W Daniel Kissling Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species Environmental Research Letters alien invasive species biodiversity informatics species distribution essential biodiversity variables infrastructure workflow |
| title | Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| title_full | Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| title_fullStr | Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| title_full_unstemmed | Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| title_short | Research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| title_sort | research infrastructure challenges in preparing essential biodiversity variables data products for alien invasive species |
| topic | alien invasive species biodiversity informatics species distribution essential biodiversity variables infrastructure workflow |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaf5db |
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