Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

W Jetz, JM McPherson, RP Guralnick - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
Global knowledge about the spatial distribution of species is orders of magnitude coarser in
resolution than other geographically-structured environmental datasets such as topography …

Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices

M Grenié, E Berti, J Carvajal‐Quintero… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The process of standardizing taxon names, taxonomic name harmonization, is necessary to
properly merge data indexed by taxon names. The large variety of taxonomic databases and …

Finding needles in haystacks: linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

CL Schoch, B Robbertse, V Robert, D Vu… - Database, 2014 - academic.oup.com
DNA phylogenetic comparisons have shown that morphology-based species recognition
often underestimates fungal diversity. Therefore, the need for accurate DNA sequence data …

World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants

T Borsch, W Berendsohn, E Dalcin, M Delmas… - Taxon, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is time to synthesize the knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years
of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout …

From integrative taxonomy to species description: one step beyond

E Pante, C Schoelinck, N Puillandre - Systematic Biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a literature survey using the Web of Science
research tool, limited to the scientific articles published between 2006 and 2013, and using …

The iPlant collaborative: cyberinfrastructure for plant biology

SA Goff, M Vaughn, S McKay, E Lyons… - Frontiers in plant …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
The iPlant Collaborative (iPlant) is a United States National Science Foundation (NSF)
funded project that aims to create an innovative, comprehensive, and foundational …

Open Nomenclature in the biodiversity era

M Sigovini, E Keppel… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The uncertainty or the provisional status of a taxonomic identification can be expressed by a
set of terms and abbreviations known as Open Nomenclature (ON) qualifiers. This approach …

Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils

KS Ramirez, CG Knight, M De Hollander… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of high-throughput DNA sequencing methods provides unprecedented
opportunities to further unravel bacterial biodiversity and its worldwide role from human …

[BOG][B] Biological systematics: principles and applications

AVZ Brower, RT Schuh - 2021 - books.google.com
Understanding the history and philosophy of biological systematics (phylogenetics,
taxonomy and classification of living things) is key to successful practice of the discipline. In …

iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists

M Vences, A Miralles, S Brouillet, J Ducasse… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
While powerful and user-friendly software suites exist for phylogenetics, and an impressive
cybertaxomic infrastructure of online species databases has been set up in the past two …