Holistic understanding of contemporary ecosystems requires integration of data on domesticated, captive and cultivated organisms.

ABSTRACT: Domestic and captive animals and cultivated plants should be recognised as integral components in contemporary ecosystems. They interact with wild organisms through such mechanisms as hybridization, predation, herbivory, competition and disease transmission and, in many cases, define ecosystem properties. Nevertheless, it is widespread practice for data on domestic, captive and cultivated organisms to be excluded from biodiversity repositories, such as natural history collections. Furthermore, there is a lack of integration of data collected about biodiversity in disciplines, such as agriculture, veterinary science, epidemiology and invasion science. Discipline-specific data are often intentionally excluded from integrative databases in order to maintain the "purity" of data on natural pro

SUBMITTER: Groom Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219659 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature