Connecting data and expertise: a new alliance for biodiversity knowledge.

ABSTRACT: There has been major progress over the last two decades in digitising historical knowledge of biodiversity and in making biodiversity data freely and openly accessible. Interlocking efforts bring together international partnerships and networks, national, regional and institutional projects and investments and countless individual contributors, spanning diverse biological and environmental research domains, government agencies and non-governmental organisations, citizen science and commercial enterprise. However, current efforts remain inefficient and inadequate to address the global need for accurate data on the world's species and on changing patterns and trends in biodiversity. Significant challenges include imbalances in regional engagement in biodiversity informatics activity, uneven

SUBMITTER: Hobern D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420472 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature