How to fill the biodiversity data gap: Is it better to invest in fieldwork or curation?

ABSTRACT: Data gaps and biases are two important issues that affect the quality of biodiversity information and downstream results. Understanding how best to fill existing gaps and account for biases is necessary to improve our current information most effectively. Two current main approaches for obtaining and improving data include (1) curation of biological collections, and (2) fieldwork. However, the comparative effectiveness of these approaches in improving biodiversity data remains little explored. We used the Flora de Bogotá project to study the magnitude of change in species richness, spatial coverage, and sample coverage of plant records based on curation versus fieldwork. The process of curation resulted in a decrease in species richness (synonym and error removal), but it significantly inc

SUBMITTER: Vargas CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10851292 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature