63urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:0E0032F4-55AE-5263-8B3C-F4DD637C30C2Biodiversity Information Science and StandardsBISS2535-0897Pensoft Publishers10.3897/biss.3.370303703011313Conference AbstractSI72 - Operationalizing Trait-Based BiodiversityRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Seed Information Database (SID): A compilation of taxon-based biological seed characteristics or traitsLiuUdayanganiu.liu@kew.orghttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6192-13191CossuTiziana Antonella1DickieJohn B.1Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Haywards Heath, United KingdomRoyal Botanic Gardens, KewHaywards HeathUnited Kingdom
Corresponding author: Udayangani Liu (u.liu@kew.org).
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2019130620193e370302445F642-3AEA-5484-A963-6F15EF53031B325128910062019Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Antonella Cossu, John B. DickieThis 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.
The Seed Information Database (SID) is one of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew's strategic databases in the public domain (http://data.kew.org/sid). SID is a compilation of taxon-based information on a range of biological seed characteristics or traits for about 52,564 seed plant taxa. Assembling and mobilizing such data involved challenges in establishing data standards for specific seed traits and taxonomy and integrating data sets from different sources. Data are derived from seed collections stored at the RBG Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) and from other published and unpublished sources. Seed traits data available in SID includes (number of records in brackets): storage behaviour (24,926), seed weights (86,287) seed dispersal (5,377), germination (54, 453), oil content (4,526), protein content (3,603), morphology (599), morphology images (1,741), halophytes (1,546) and viability constants (72). Database can be searched for any, or all of these categories by clade, order, family, genus, or species. SID also offers various online tools useful for ex situ seed conservation and storage (e.g. seed viability equation to predict the proportion of seeds in a population that are viable after any period of storage in a wide range of environments). SID data has been used by a wider community (general public, researches, conservationists, policymakers, etc.) in a range of disciplines including biodiversity conservation, food security, climate change, agriculture, and seed industry across the globe for large-scale analysis, modelling, predicting, or describing plant seed traits.
Seed Information DatabaseSIDSeed Traits2019Biodiversity_NextBiodiversity_Next 2019Leiden, The NetherlandsA joint conference by The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), a new pan-European Research Infrastructure initiative (DiSSCo), the national resource for digitized information about vouchered natural history collections (iDigBio), Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF), Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and LifeWatch ERIC, the e-Science and Technology European Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research.Presenting author
Udayangani Liu
Presented at
Biodiversity_Next 2019
Hosting institution
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Robert Turner and Kenwin Liu for their valuable contribution in developing Seed Information Database at MSB, and all MSB curators and collection professionals and members of MSB Partnership.