A5058323130- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Research Data Management Practices
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Botanical Studies and Applications
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
Pensoft Publishers (Bulgaria)
2010-2024
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2010-2024
Meise Botanic Garden
2017-2024
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2022-2024
HES-SO Genève
2023-2024
Royal Museum for Central Africa
2017-2024
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2022-2024
European Organization for Nuclear Research
2019-2024
Ecosystem (Spain)
2024
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
2020-2023
Abstract Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical northern southern hemispheres. Here we examine pattern of across 1003 local ant assemblages. We find asymmetry, with hemisphere sites being more diverse than sites. Most this asymmetry could be explained statistically by differences contemporary climate. Local was positively associated temperature, but negatively (although weakly) temperature range...
A worker ant preserved with microscopic detail has been discovered in Turonian-aged New Jersey amber [ ca. 92 mega-annum (Ma)]. The apex of the gaster an acidopore and, thus, allows definitive assignment fossil to large extant subfamily Formicinae, members which use a defensive spray formic acid. This specimen is only Cretaceous record subfamily, and two other ants are known from that unequivocally belong ( Brownimecia Canapone Ponerinae, Canadian amber, respectively). In lieu cladogram...
Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the scattered knowledge forassessing status and trends. The concept of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) was introduced tostructure monitoring globally, harmonize standardize from disparate sourcesto capture a minimum set critical variables required study, report manage change. Here, weassess challenges ‘Big Data’ approach building global EBV products across taxa spatiotemporalscales, focusing on...
The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed the Code has already been discussed Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; 2009a-b; Dubois Gentile Snell Minelli Cianferoni Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This was again raised a letter supported 35 signatories published journal Nature (Pape 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 2016,...
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) are fundamental variables that can be used for assessing biodiversity change over time, determining adherence to policy, monitoring progress towards sustainable development goals, and tracking responses disturbances management interventions. Data from observations or models provide measured estimated EBV values, which we refer as data products, help capture the above processes trends serve a coherent framework documenting in biodiversity. Using primary...
Abstract: The Atlantic rainforest of southern Bahia is one the last remnants lowland forest eastern Brazil that once covered entire coastal area from Rio Grande do Norte to Sul ( lat 8°–28° S) and has been deforested a small fraction its original cover (1–12%). All recent vegetation surveys have based on optical satellite data, which hampered by cloud Bahia's intricate mix patches with other tree crops, especially cocoa. We describe application radar remote‐sensing data distinguish cocoa...
The concept of semantic tagging and its potential for enhancements to taxonomic papers is outlined illustrated by four exemplar published in the present issue ZooKeys. were created different ways: (i) written Microsoft Word submitted as non-tagged manuscript (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.504); (ii) generated from Scratchpads XML-tagged manuscripts 10.3897/zookeys.50.505 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.506); (iii) an author's database(doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.485) manuscript. XML implemented during...
A large part of our knowledge on the world's species is recorded in corpus biodiversity literature with well over hundred million pages, and represented natural history collections estimated at 2 – 3 billion specimens. But this body almost entirely paper-print form not directly accessible through Internet. For digitization literature, new territories have to be chartered fields technical, legal social issues that presently impede its advance. The taxonomic seems especially destined for such...
The Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a suite of copyright-based defining terms for the distribution and re-use creative works. CC provides different use cases includes open content such as Attribution license (CC BY, used by many Open Access scientific publishers) Share Alike BY-SA, Wikipedia, example). However, also contains non-free non-open like those containing "non-commercial" (NC) condition. Although people identify with "non-profit", detailed analysis reveals that significant...
Hymenoptera exhibit an incredible diversity of phenotypes, the result ~240 million years evolution and primary subject more than 250 research. Here we describe history, development, utility Anatomy Ontology (HAO) its associated applications. These resources are designed to facilitate accessible extensible research on hymenopteran phenotypes. Outreach with hymenopterist community is utmost importance HAO project, this paper a direct response questions that arised from project workshops. In...
Biodiversity data is being digitized and made available online at a rapidly increasing rate but current practices typically do not preserve linkages between these data, which impedes interoperation, provenance tracking, assembly of larger datasets. For associated with biocollections, the biodiversity community has long recognized that an essential part establishing preserving to apply globally unique identifiers point when are generated in field persist downstream, this seldom implemented...
The biodiversity domain, and in particular biological taxonomy, is moving the direction of semantization its research outputs. present work introduces OpenBiodiv-O, ontology that serves as basis OpenBiodiv Knowledge Management System. Our intent to provide an fills gaps between ontologies for resources, such DarwinCore-based ontologies, semantic publishing SPAR Ontologies. We bridge this gap by providing focusing on taxonomy. OpenBiodiv-O classes, properties, axioms domains scholarly...
BiCIKL is an European Union Horizon 2020 project that will initiate and build a new starting community of key research infrastructures, establishing open science practices in the domain biodiversity through provision access to data, associated tools services at each separate stage along entire cycle. provide methods workflows for integrated harvesting, liberating, linking, accessing re-using subarticle-level data (specimens, material citations, samples, sequences, taxonomic names,...
The fields of taxonomy and biodiversity research have witnessed an exponential growth in published literature. This vast corpus articles holds information on the diverse biological traits organisms their ecologies. However, access to extraction relevant data from this extensive resource remain challenging. Advances text mining (TDM) Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques offer new opportunities for liberating such Testing using approaches annotate machine actionable formats is...
The fields of taxonomy and biodiversity research have witnessed an exponential growth in published literature. This vast corpus articles holds information on the diverse biological traits organisms their ecologies. However, access to extraction relevant data from this extensive resource remain challenging. Advances text mining (TDM) Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques offer new opportunities for liberating such Testing using approaches annotate machine actionable formats is...