Biodiversity science: biodiversity and environmental impact assessment
New guidance out from GBIF on Preserving Biodiversity Knowledge From Impact Assessment - including biodiversity in EIAs, and using the data legacy.
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Collections information: building vertebrate databases in the cloud - Vertnet
News release from UC Berkeley on the new Vertnet - intended to integrate existing unsupported vertebrate database initiatives (HerpNet, MaNIS, ORNIS and FishNET) and address difficulties with scaling and sustainability in part through cloud computing. Primarily US collections, but some other large non-US instiitutions have some collections involved. Will integrate with other initiatives such as EoL and GBIF as well to deliver information.
Biodiversity science: PLoS biodiversity hub - forward thinking
The PLoS Biodversity hub has been around for almost a year now, bringing together open access publications. A new paper from Mindell et al. on PLoS is essential reading on the potential for integration of many biodiversity resources with open access research. Not least, a good list of intiatives, which reads:..../ more
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aggregated specimen data:
interoperability among datasets and databases:
taxonomic literature:
taxonomic names:
molecular sequence data:
images:
phylogenetic relationships:
natural history:
conservation status of species:
and ecological and evolutionary datasetsv http://datadryad.org/