Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
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Corresponding author: José Augusto Salim (joseasalim@usp.br)
Received: 22 Sep 2021 | Published: 23 Sep 2021
© 2021 José Augusto Salim, Paula Zermoglio, Debora Drucker, Filipi Soares, Antonio Saraiva, Kayna Agostini, Leandro Freitas, Marina Wolowski, André Rech, Marcia Maués, Isabela Varassin
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Salim JA, Zermoglio PF, Drucker DP, Soares FM, Saraiva AM, Agostini K, Freitas L, Wolowski M, Rech AR, Maués MM, Varassin IG (2021) Plant-pollinator Vocabulary - a Contribution to Interaction Data Standardization. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5: e75636. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.75636
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Human demands on resources such as food and energy are increasing through time while global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss are becoming more complex to overcome, as well as more widely acknowledged by societies and governments. Reports from initiatives like the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have demanded quick and reliable access to high-quality spatial and temporal data of species occurrences, their interspecific relations and the effects of the environment on biotic interactions. Mapping species interactions is crucial to understanding and conserving ecosystem functioning and all the services it can provide (
Although a great effort has been made to successfully standardize and aggregate species occurrence data, a formal standard to support biotic interaction data sharing and interoperability is still lacking. There are different biological interactions that can be studied, such as predator-prey, host-parasite and pollinator-plant and there is a variety of data practices and data representation procedures that can be used.
Plant-pollinator interactions are recognized in many sources from the scientific literature (
We present a vocabulary of terms for sharing plant-pollinator interactions using one of the existing extensions to the Darwin Core standard (
The plant-pollinator interactions vocabulary is mainly a set of terms that can be both understood by people or interpreted by machines. The plant-pollinator vocabulary is composed of a defining a set of terms and descriptive documents explaining how the vocabulary is to be used. The terms in the vocabulary are divided into six categories: Animal, Plants, Flower, Interaction, Reproductive Success and Nectar Dynamics. The categories are not formally part of the vocabulary, they are used only to organize the vocabulary and to facilitate understanding by humans.
We expect that the plant-pollinator vocabulary will contribute to data aggregation from a variety of sources worldwide at higher levels than we have experienced, significantly amplify plant-pollinator data availability for global synthesis, and contribute to knowledge in conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
José Augusto Salim