Statistics and Analysis of Digital Information on Vascular Plant Specimens and the History of Plant Collecting in Guangzhou, China by Miaoting Liang, Xinsheng Qin

“…Specimen data were collected from various sources, including the China Digital Herbarium (CVH), the National Specimen Resource Sharing Platform (NSII), Global Plants on JSTOR, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Following data standardization, the study identified 41,890 vascular plant specimens, encompassing 248 families, 1563 genera, and 4536 species, including subspecies and cultivated plants. …”
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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections by Quentin Groom, Mathias Dillen, Wouter Addink, Arturo H. Ariño, Christian Bölling, Pierre Bonnet, Lorenzo Cecchi, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Rui Figueira, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Olwen Grace, Anton Güntsch, Helen Hardy, Pieter Huybrechts, Roger Hyam, Alexis Joly, Vamsi Krishna Kommineni, Isabel Larridon, Laurence Livermore, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Sofie Meeus, Jeremy Miller, Kenzo Milleville, Renato Panda, Marc Pignal, Jorrit Poelen, Blagoj Ristevski, Tim Robertson, Ana Rufino, Joaquim Santos, Maarten Schermer, Ben Scott, Katja Seltmann, Heliana Teixeira, Maarten Trekels, Jitendra Gaikwad

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Current and Future Potential Distribution of the Xerophytic Shrub Candelilla (<i>Euphorbia antisyphilitica</i>) under Two Climate Change Scenarios by Gonzalo Vargas-Piedra, Ricardo David Valdez-Cepeda, Armando López-Santos, Arnoldo Flores-Hernández, Nathalie S. Hernández-Quiroz, Martín Martínez-Salvador

“…We created a spatial database with points of candelilla presence, according to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). A spatial analysis to predict the potential distribution of the species using Maxent software was performed. …”
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The global atlas of edible insects: analysis of diversity and commonality contributing to food systems and sustainability by Evanson R. Omuse, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf, Honest Machekano, James Peter Egonyu, Emily Kimathi, Samira Faris Mohamed, Menale Kassie, Sevgan Subramanian, Juliet Onditi, Serah Mwangi, Sunday Ekesi, Saliou Niassy

“…We collated data from various sources, including the literature for a list of edible insect species, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and iNaturalist for the geographical presence of edible insects, the Copernicus Land Service library for Global Land Cover, and FAOSTAT for population, income, and nutritional security parameters. …”
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Tree stand assessment before and after windthrow based on open-access biodiversity data and aerial photography by Natalya V. Ivanova, Maxim P. Shashkov

“…We used our previous ground-survey studies and open-access biodiversity data available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility for describing the forest stands composition before the catastrophic event. …”
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Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru by Jay Delves, Joaquina Albán‐Castillo, Asunción Cano, Carmen Fernández Aviles, Edeline Gagnon, Paúl Gonzáles, Sandra Knapp, Blanca León, Jose Luis Marcelo‐Peña, Carlos Reynel, Rocío del Pilar Rojas Gonzáles, Eric F. Rodríguez Rodríguez, Tiina Särkinen, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Peter W. Moonlight

“…We find that the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has little data from Peruvian herbaria and adding these data influences the estimated threat status of these species, reducing the numbers of Critically Endangered and Vulnerable species in both genera. …”
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Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples by Lyubomir Penev, Donat Agosti, Teodor Georgiev, Terry Catapano, Jeremy Miller, Vladimir Blagoderov, David Roberts, Vincent Smith, Irina Brake, Simon Ryrcroft, Ben Scott, Norman Johnson, Robert Morris, Guido Sautter, Vishwas Chavan, Tim Robertson, David Remsen, Pavel Stoev, Cynthia Parr, Sandra Knapp, W. John Kress, Frederic Thompson, Terry Erwin

“….); (ii) internal cross-linking between paper sections, citations, references, tables, and figures; (iii) mapping of localities listed in the whole paper or within separate taxon treatments; (v) taxon names autotagged, dynamically mapped and linked through the Pensoft Taxon Profile (PTP) to large international database services and indexers such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Barcode of Life, Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), ZooBank, Wikipedia, Wkispecies, Wikimedia, and others; (vi) GenBank accession numbers autotagged and linked to NCBI; (vii) external links of taxon names to references in PubMed, Google Scholar, Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources. …”
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Biodiversity of a boreal mire, including its hydrographic network (Shichengskoe mire, north-western Russia) by Dmitriy Philippov, Sergey Ermilov, Vera Zaytseva, Sergey Pestov, Eugeniy Kuzmin, Julia Shabalina, Alexey Sazhnev, Ksenya Ivicheva, Irina Sterlyagova, Mikhail Leonov, Margarita Boychuk, Andrey Czhobadze, Kristina Prokina, Mikhail Dulin, Omid Joharchi, Aleksey Shabunov, Olga Shiryaeva, Andrey Levashov, Aleksandra Komarova, Victoria Yurchenko

“…A total of 5869 occurrences were included in the dataset published in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, gbif.org) for the first time. …”
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A Dataset of Non-Indigenous and Native Fish of the Volga and Kama Rivers (European Russia) by Dmitry P. Karabanov, Dmitry D. Pavlov, Yury Y. Dgebuadze, Mikhail I. Bazarov, Elena A. Borovikova, Yuriy V. Gerasimov, Yulia V. Kodukhova, Pavel B. Mikheev, Eduard V. Nikitin, Tatyana L. Opaleva, Yuri A. Severov, Rimma Z. Sabitova, Alexey K. Smirnov, Yury I. Solomatin, Igor A. Stolbunov, Alexander I. Tsvetkov, Stanislav A. Vlasenko, Irina S. Voroshilova, Wenjun Zhong, Xiaowei Zhang, Alexey A. Kotov

“…The dataset has a Darwin Core standard format and has been fully released in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) under CC-BY 4.0 International license. …”
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Recommendations for interoperability among infrastructures by Sofie Meeus, Wouter Addink, Donat Agosti, Christos Arvanitidis, Bachir Balech, Mathias Dillen, Mariya Dimitrova, Juan Miguel González-Aranda, Jörg Holetschek, Sharif Islam, Thomas Jeppesen, Daniel Mietchen, Nicky Nicolson, Lyubomir Penev, Tim Robertson, Patrick Ruch, Maarten Trekels, Quentin Groom

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Uncertainties of Climate Change on Suitable Habitat of <i>Calligonum mongolicum</i> Turcz. (Polygonaceae) in Desert Areas of Central Asia by Guan Liu, Yanru Zhang, Qi Lu, Keli An, Yurong Li, Dongyang Xiong, Guoqing Li, Sheng Du

“…Occurrence data of <i>C. mongolicum</i> were obtained from various sources, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Chinese Virtual Herbarium, and the iPlant website. …”
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Enhancing DNA barcode reference libraries by harvesting terrestrial arthropods at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History by Bernardo Santos, Meredith Miller, Margarita Miklasevskaja, Jaclyn McKeown, Niamh Redmond, Jonathan Coddington, Jessica Bird, Scott Miller, Ashton Smith, Seán Brady, Matthew Buffington, M. Lourdes Chamorro, Torsten Dikow, Michael Gates, Paul Goldstein, Alexander Konstantinov, Robert Kula, Nicholas Silverson, M. Alma Solis, Stephanie deWaard, Suresh Naik, Nadya Nikolova, Mikko Pentinsaari, Sean Prosser, Jayme Sones, Evgeny Zakharov, Jeremy deWaard

“…The corresponding sequence and taxonomic data can be accessed through the Barcode of Life Data System, GenBank, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Global Genome Biodiversity Network Data Portal and the NMNH data portal.…”
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Predicting the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus in Europe: a comparison of climate niche modelling approaches by Madeleine Noll, Richard Wall, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Hannah Newbury, Lukasz Adaszek, René Bødker, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Jacques Guillot, Isabel Pereira da Fonseca, Julia Probst, Paul Overgaauw, Christina Strube, Fathiah Zakham, Stefania Zanet, Hannah Rose Vineer

“…Species occurrence records obtained from systematic literature searches and Global Biodiversity Information Facility data were thinned to different degrees to remove sampling spatial bias. …”
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Potential Distribution of <i>Cedrela odorata</i> L. in Mexico according to Its Optimal Thermal Range for Seed Germination under Different Climate Change Scenarios by Salvador Sampayo-Maldonado, Cesar A. Ordoñez-Salanueva, Efisio Mattana, Michael Way, Elena Castillo-Lorenzo, Patricia D. Dávila-Aranda, Rafael Lira-Saade, Oswaldo Téllez-Valdés, Norma I. Rodríguez-Arévalo, Cesar M. Flores-Ortiz, Tiziana Ulian

“…For the present distribution, 256 localities of the species’ presence were obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) database and modelled with MaxEnt. …”
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Quantifying spatial ignorance in the effort to collect terrestrial fauna in Namibia, Africa by Thainá Lessa, Fernanda Alves-Martins, Javier Martinez-Arribas, Ricardo A. Correia, John Mendelsohn, Ezequiel Chimbioputo Fabiano, Simon T. Angombe, Ana C.M. Malhado, Richard J. Ladle

“…Our findings demonstrate that despite a high volume of occurrence records available on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), publicly available knowledge of Namibia's terrestrial biodiversity remains very limited, with large areas contributing few or no records for key taxa. …”
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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 by Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Olha Chusova, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Michael P. Nobis, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Irena Axmanová, Hans Henrik Bruun, Milan Chytrý, Riccardo Guarino, Gerhard Karrer, Karlien Moeys, Thomas Raus, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Lubomir Tichý, Torbjörn Tyler, Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Claudia Bita-Nicolae, Yakiv Didukh, Martin Diekmann, Thorsten Englisch, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Dieter Frank, Ulrich Graf, Michal Hájek, Sven D. Jelaska, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Philippe Julve, George Nakhutsrishvili, Wim A. Ozinga, Eszter-Karolina Ruprecht, Urban Šilc, Jean-Paul Theurillat, François Gillet

“…Abbreviations: EIV = Ecological indicator value; EIVE = Ecological Indicator Values for Europe; EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GBIF = Global Biodiversity Information Facility; i = index for taxa; j = index for EIV systems; L = ecological indicator for light; M = ecological indicator for moisture; N = ecological indicator for nitrogen availability; R = ecological indicator for reaction; T = ecological indicator for temperature.…”
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The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm—On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa by Urmas Kõljalg, Henrik R. Nilsson, Dmitry Schigel, Leho Tedersoo, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Tom W. May, Andy F. S. Taylor, Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen, Tobias Guldberg Frøslev, Björn D. Lindahl, Kadri Põldmaa, Irja Saar, Ave Suija, Anton Savchenko, Iryna Yatsiuk, Kristjan Adojaan, Filipp Ivanov, Timo Piirmann, Raivo Pöhönen, Allan Zirk, Kessy Abarenkov

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Data from Entomological Collections of Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in a post-epidemic area of Chikungunya, City of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo by Victoire Nsabatien, Josue Zanga, Fiacre Agossa, Nono Mvuama, Maxwell Bamba, Osée Mansiangi, Leon Mbashi, Vanessa Mvudi, Glodie Diza, Dorcas Kantin, Narcisse Basosila, Hyacinthe Lukoki, Arsene Bokulu, Christelle Bosulu, Erick Bukaka, Jonas Nagahuedi, Jean Claude Palata, Emery Metelo

“…The data from this study are published in the public domain as the Darwin Core Archive in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. …”
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No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF by Alexander Zizka, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Alice Calvente, Mabel Rocio Baez-Lizarazo, Andressa Cabral, Jéssica Fernanda Ramos Coelho, Matheus Colli-Silva, Mariana Ramos Fantinati, Moabe F. Fernandes, Thais Ferreira-Araújo, Fernanda Gondim Lambert Moreira, Nathália Michellyda Cunha Santos, Tiago Andrade Borges Santos, Renata Clicia dos Santos-Costa, Filipe C. Serrano, Ana Paula Alves da Silva, Arthur de Souza Soares, Paolla Gabryelle Cavalcante de Souza, Eduardo Calisto Tomaz, Valéria Fonseca Vale, Tiago Luiz Vieira, Alexandre Antonelli

“…Automatic filtering is a scalable and reproducible means to identify potentially problematic records and tailor datasets from public databases such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; http://www.gbif.org), for biodiversity analyses. …”
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The MOBIOS+: A FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) database for Mindanao's terrestrial biodiversity by Krizler Tanalgo, Kier Dela Cruz, Angelo Agduma, Jeaneth Magelen Respicio, Sumaira Abdullah, Renee Jane Alvaro-Ele, Bona Abigail Hilario-Husain, Meriam Manampan-Rubio, Sedra Murray, Lothy Casim, Athea Mohidda Pantog, Shiela Mae Balase, Rallyessa Mohann Abdulkasan, Chasty Andrea Aguirre, Nadjmussahar Banto, Sheila Mae Broncate, Ace Dimacaling, Gerald Vince Fabrero, Asraf Lidasan, Analiza Lingcob, Ariane Millondaga, Kathlene Faye Panilla, Crystal Queen Sinadjan, Norlaine Unte

“…We made all georeferenced specimen occurrences available in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) platform.…”
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