Assessing spatial and temporal biases and gaps in the publicly available distributional information of Iberian mosses.

ABSTRACT: One of the most valuable initiatives on massive availability of biodiversity data is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, which is creating new opportunities to develop and test macroecological knowledge. However, the potential uses of these data are limited by the gaps and biases associated to large-scale distributional databases (the so-called Wallacean shortfall). Describing and quantifying these limitations are essential to improve knowledge on biodiversity, especially in poorly-studied groups, such as mosses. Here we assess the coverage of the publicly-available distributional information on Iberian mosses, defining its eventual biases and gaps. For this purpose, we compiled IberBryo v1.0, a database that comprises 82,582 records after processing and checking the geospatial a

SUBMITTER: Ronquillo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7508938 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature