TY - JOUR
T1 - Holistic Understanding of Contemporary Ecosystems Requires Integration of Data on Domesticated, Captive and Cultivated Organisms
AU - Groom, Quentin
AU - Adriaens, Tim
AU - Bertolino, Sandro
AU - Phelps, Kendra
AU - Poelen, Jorrit H.
AU - Reeder, Dee Ann Marie
AU - Richardson, David M.
AU - Simmons, Nancy B.
AU - Upham, Nathan
N1 - Funding Information:
QG and TA acknowledge the support of the Belgian Science Policy Office under the TrIAS project (BR/165/A1/TrIAS). QG, TA & SB acknowledge COST Action CA17122 Alien CSI Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). DMR acknowledges support from the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (grant 18576/03). SB was funded by the University of Turin, local research grant number.
Publisher Copyright:
© Groom Q et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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 processes. Rather than being beneficial, we argue that this practise of data exclusivity greatly limits the utility of discipline-specific data for applications ranging from agricultural pest management to invasion biology, infectious disease prevention and community ecology. This problem can be resolved by data providers using standards to indicate whether the observed organism is of wild or domestic origin and by integrating their data with other biodiversity data (e.g. in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Doing so will enable efforts to integrate the full panorama of biodiversity knowledge across related disciplines to tackle pressing societal questions.
AB - 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 processes. Rather than being beneficial, we argue that this practise of data exclusivity greatly limits the utility of discipline-specific data for applications ranging from agricultural pest management to invasion biology, infectious disease prevention and community ecology. This problem can be resolved by data providers using standards to indicate whether the observed organism is of wild or domestic origin and by integrating their data with other biodiversity data (e.g. in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility). Doing so will enable efforts to integrate the full panorama of biodiversity knowledge across related disciplines to tackle pressing societal questions.
KW - Darwin core
KW - One Health
KW - interoperability
KW - invasive species
KW - urban ecology
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U2 - 10.3897/BDJ.9.E65371
DO - 10.3897/BDJ.9.E65371
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109137668
SN - 1314-2836
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Biodiversity Data Journal
JF - Biodiversity Data Journal
M1 - e65371
ER -