Publicaties
Gekozen filters:
Gekozen filters:
Promoting high-quality data in OBIS: Insights from the OBIS Data Quality Assessment and Enhancement Project Team Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (Klein et al. 2019) is a global database of marine biodiversity and associated environmental data, which provides critical information to researchers and policymakers worldwide. Ensuring the accuracy and consistency of the data in OBIS is essential for its usefulness and value, not only to the scientific community but also to the science-policy interface. The OBIS Data Quality Assessment ...
AlgaeTraits: a trait database for (European) seaweeds Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
The analysis of biological and ecological traits has a long history in evolutionary and ecological research. However, trait data are often scattered and standardised terminology that transcends taxonomicand biogeographical context are generally missing. As part of thedevelopment of a global trait database of marine species, we collated trait information for European seaweeds and structured the data within the standardised framework of the World ...
Marine biodiversity discovery: The metrics of new species descriptions Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Based on the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), there are currently c. 242,000 known valid marine species living in the world's oceans and marine biota continue to be discovered and named steadily at a current average of 2,332 new species per year. The “average” newly described marine species is a benthic crustacean, annelid, or molluscs between 2 and 10 mm in size, living in the tropics at depths of 0–60 m, and represented in the ...
Linked data publishing of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) as a basis for uniformly linking-up resources to accepted taxon names Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
An algorithmic approach to reducing taxonomic detail from actual datasets to their metadata representation to increase findabilty Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Supporting the essential - Recommendations for the development of accessible and interoperable marine biological data products Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Introducing the World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
A major historical challenge for the management of anthropogenic introductions of species has been the absence of a globally standardised system for species nomenclature. For over a decade, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has provided a taxonomically authoritative classification and designation of thecurrently accepted names for all known marine species. However, WoRMS mainly focuses on taxonomy and does not specifically address ...
Recommendations for the standardisation of open taxonomic nomenclature for image-based identifications Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
This paper recommends best practice for the use of open nomenclature (ON) signs applicable to image-based faunal analyses. It is one of numerous initiatives to improve biodiversity data input to improve the reliability of biological datasets and their utility in informing policy and management. Image-based faunal analyses are increasingly common but have limitations in the level of taxonomic precision that can be achieved, which varies among ...