Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms

• DOI: 10.3897/bdj.9.e65371
• Publication Date: 2021-06-15T11:00:06Z
• Authors: Quentin Groom; Tim Adriaens; Sandro Bertolino; Kendra Phelps; Jorrit Poelen; DeeAnn Reeder; David Richardson; Nancy Simmons; Nathan Upham
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 570; QH301-705.5; bats; interoperability; bat; 630; invasive species; 03 medical and health sciences; domesticated; Forum Paper; Chiroptera; cultivated; Animalia; wild; One Health; Biology (General); Chordata; Contemporary ecosystems; Urban ecology (Sociology); Global Biodiversity Information Facility; Introduced organisms; O; Biodiversity; 15. Life on land; Darwin core; interoperability; invasive species; One Health; urban ecology; Darwin core; urban ecology; 13. Climate action; Mammalia; Darwin Core; ecosystems

Domestic and captive animals cultivated plants should be recognised as integral components in contemporary ecosystems. They interact with wild organisms through such mechanisms hybridization, predation, herbivory, competition disease transmission and, many cases, define ecosystem properties. Nevertheless, it is widespread practice for data on domestic, to excluded from biodiversity repositories, natural history collections. Furthermore, there a lack of integration collected about disciplines, agriculture, veterinary science, epidemiology invasion science. Discipline-specific are often intentionally integrative databases order maintain the "purity" processes. Rather than being beneficial, we argue that this practise exclusivity greatly limits utility discipline-specific applications ranging agricultural pest management biology, infectious prevention community ecology. This problem can resolved by providers using standards indicate whether observed organism or domestic origin integrating their other (e.g. Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Doing so will enable efforts integrate full panorama knowledge across related disciplines tackle pressing societal questions.