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Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal pollination is an important ecosystem function and service, ensuring both the integrity of natural systems and human well-being. Although many knowledge shortfalls remain, some high-quality data sets on biological interactions are now available. The development and adoption of standards for biodiversity data and metadata has promoted great advances in biological data sharing and aggregation, supporting large-scale studies and science-based public policies. However, these standards are currently not suitable to fully support interaction data sharing.

Results

Here we present a vocabulary of terms and a data model for sharing plant-pollinator interactions data based on the Darwin Core standard. The vocabulary introduces 48 new terms targeting several aspects of plant-pollinator interactions and can be used to capture information from different approaches and scales. Additionally, we provide solutions for data serialization using RDF, XML, and DwC-Archives and recommendations of existing controlled vocabularies for some of the terms. Our contribution supports open access to standardized data on plant-pollinator interactions.

Conclusions

The adoption of the vocabulary would facilitate data sharing to support studies ranging from the spatial and temporal distribution of interactions to the taxonomic, phenological, functional, and phylogenetic aspects of plant-pollinator interactions. We expect to fill data and knowledge gaps, thus further enabling scientific research on the ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator communities, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and the development of public policies. The proposed data model is flexible and can be adapted for sharing other types of interactions data by developing discipline-specific vocabularies of terms.

SUBMITTER: Salim JA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154084 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions.

Salim José A JA Saraiva Antonio M AM Zermoglio Paula F PF Agostini Kayna K Wolowski Marina M Drucker Debora P DP Soares Filipi M FM Bergamo Pedro J PJ Varassin Isabela G IG Freitas Leandro L Maués Márcia M MM Rech Andre R AR Veiga Allan K AK Acosta Andre L AL Araujo Andréa C AC Nogueira Anselmo A Blochtein Betina B Freitas Breno M BM Albertini Bruno C BC Maia-Silva Camila C Nunes Carlos E P CEP Pires Carmen S S CSS Dos Santos Charles F CF Queiroz Elisa P EP Cartolano Etienne A EA de Oliveira Favízia F FF Amorim Felipe W FW Fontúrbel Francisco E FE da Silva Gleycon V GV Consolaro Hélder H Alves-Dos-Santos Isabel I Machado Isabel C IC Silva Juliana S JS Aleixo Kátia P KP Carvalheiro Luísa G LG Rocca Márcia A MA Pinheiro Mardiore M Hrncir Michael M Streher Nathália S NS Ferreira Patricia A PA de Albuquerque Patricia M C PMC Maruyama Pietro K PK Borges Rafael C RC Giannini Tereza C TC Brito Vinícius L G VLG

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<h4>Background</h4>Animal pollination is an important ecosystem function and service, ensuring both the integrity of natural systems and human well-being. Although many knowledge shortfalls remain, some high-quality data sets on biological interactions are now available. The development and adoption of standards for biodiversity data and metadata has promoted great advances in biological data sharing and aggregation, supporting large-scale studies and science-based public policies. However, thes ...[more]

PMID: 35639882

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Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions.

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Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions.

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