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Data integration enables global biodiversity synthesis
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Significance: As anthropogenic impacts to Earth systems accelerate, biodiversity knowledge integration is urgently required to support responses to underpin a sustainable future. Consolidating information from disparate sources (e.g., community science programs, museums) and data types (e.g., environmental, biological) can connect the biological sciences across taxonomic, disciplinary, geographical, and socioeconomic boundaries. In an analysis of the research uses of the world’s largest cross-taxon biodiversity data network, we report the emerging roles of open-access data aggregation in the development of increasingly diverse, global research. These results indicate a new biodiversity science landscape centered on big data integration, informing ongoing initiatives and the strategic prioritization of biodiversity data aggregation across diverse knowledge domains, including environmental sciences and policy, evolutionary biology, conservation, and human health.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heberling, J. M., Miller, J. T., Noesgaard, D., Weingart, S. B., & Schigel, D.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History (US)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (DK)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Heberling, J. Mason
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2021-02
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC8017944
- OpenAlex
- W3127515314
- Cited by
- 380
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 81 · 2025: 76 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 21
- FWCI
- 50.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecological Modeling › Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- biodiversity data integration, GBIF, citizen science, species distribution modeling, macroecology
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Classification, Humans, Museums, Databases, Factual, Biodiversity
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