Improving Darwin Core for research and management of alien species

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards

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Quentin Groom¹  Peter Desmet²  Lien Reyserhove²  Tim Adriaens²  Damiano Oldoni²  Sonia Vanderhoeven³  Steven J Baskauf⁴  Arthur Chapman⁵  Melodie McGeoch⁶  Ramona Walls⁷  John Wieczorek⁸  John R.U. Wilson⁹  Paula F F Zermoglio^1,11  Annie Simpson^1,12 

[1] Meise Botanic Garden;Research Institute for Nature and Forest;Belgian Biodiversity Platform;Vanderbilt University;Australian Biodiversity Information Services;Monash University, School of Biological Sciences;Bio5 Institute and CyVerse, University of Arizona;Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California;South African National Biodiversity Institute;Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University;Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires ,(IEGEBA-CONICET), University of Buenos Aires;US Geological Survey

关键词: establishment means;    invasive species;    non-native;    biodiversity;    data standards;    Essential Biodiversity Variables;    invasion pathway;    invasion stage;   

DOI  :  10.3897/biss.3.38084

来源: Pensoft

【 摘 要 】

To improve the suitability of the Darwin Core standard for the research and management of alien species, the standard needs to express the native status of organisms, how well established they are and how they came to occupy a location. To facilitate this, we propose:1. To adopt a controlled vocabulary for the existing Darwin Core term dwc:establishmentMeans2. To elevate the pathway term from the Invasive Species Pathways extension to become a new Darwin Core term dwc:pathway maintained as part of the Darwin Core standard3. To adopt a new Darwin Core term dwc:degreeOfEstablishment with an associated controlled vocabularyThese changes to the standard will allow users to clearly state whether an occurrence of a species is native to a location or not, how it got there (pathway), and to what extent the species has become a permanent feature of the location. By improving Darwin Core for capturing and sharing these data, we aim to improve the quality of occurrence and checklist data in general and to increase the number of potential uses of these data.

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