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2024
Journal article
A new R package to parse plant species occurrence records into unique collection events efficiently reduces data redundancy.
Biodiversity data aggregators, such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) suffer from inflation of the number of occurrence records when data from different databases are merged but not fully reconciled. The ParseGBIF workflow is designed to parse duplicate GBIF species occurrence records into unique collection events (gatherings) and to optimise... -
2021
Journal article
Colombia’s bioregions as a source of useful plants.
The aim of our study was to assess the importance of different Colombian bioregions in terms of the supply of useful plant species and the quality of the available distribution data. We assembled a dataset of georeferenced collection localities of all vascular plants of Colombia available from global and local... -
2019
Journal article
A Preliminary Evaluation of The Karst Flora of Brazil Using Collections Data
Karst is defined as landscapes that are underlain by soluble rock in which there is appreciable water movement arising from a combination of high rock solubility and well-developed secondary (fracture) porosity. Karsts occupy approximately 20% of the planet’s dry ice-free land and are of great socioeconomic importance, as they supply...Bystriakova, Nadia ; Alves De Melo, Pablo Hendrigo ; Moat, Justin ; Lughadha, Eimear Nic ; Monro, Alexandre K.