Seven recommendation to make your alien species data more useful
Science-based strategies to tackle biological invasions depend on recent, accurate, well-documented, standardized and openly accessible information on alien species. Currently, biodiversity data are scattered in numerous data silos that lack interoperability. This is not different for alien species data and this obstructs more efficient methods to retrieve, combine and use these kinds of information for research and policy-making. In this paper, we outline how data on alien species can be made more useful based on the results of a dedicated workshop. Access to accurate, real-time and historical data will repay the long-term investment in data management infrastructure, by providing more accurate, timely and realistic information. Towards this goal, if we improving improve core biodiversity data standards by developing their relevance to alien species it will allow the automation of common activities regarding data processing in support of environmental policy. Furthermore, we call for considerable effort to maintain, update, standardize, archive and aggregate current data sets, to ensure proper valorization of alien species data and resulting information before they become obsolete or lost.
GROOM Quentin John;
ADRIAENS Tim;
DESMET Peter;
SIMPSON Annie;
DE WEVER Aaike;
BAZOS Ioannis;
DE JESUS CARDOSO Ana;
CHARLES Lucinda;
CHRISTOPOULOU Anastasia;
GAZDA Anna;
HELMISAARI Harry;
HOBERN Donald;
JOSEFSSON Melanie;
LUCY Frances E.;
MARISAVLJEVIC Dragana;
OSZAKO Tomasz;
PERGL Jan;
PETROVIC-OBRADOVIC Olivera;
PRÉVOT Céline;
RAVN Hans Peter;
RICHARDS Gareth;
ROQUES Alain;
ROY Helen;
ROZENBERG Marie-Anne Auger;
SCALERA Ricardo;
TRICARICO Elena;
TRICHKOVA Teodora;
VERCAYIE Diemer;
ZENETOS Argyro;
VANDERHOEVEN Sonia;
2017-10-12
Frontiers media SA
JRC107160
2297-4676,
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fams.2017.00013/full,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC107160,
10.3389/fams.2017.00013,
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