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Corresponding author: Quentin Groom (quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be)
Received: 26 Jul 2022 | Published: 01 Aug 2022
© 2022 Quentin Groom, Tim Adriaens, Sandro Bertolino, Kendra Phelps, Jorrit Poelen, DeeAnn Reeder, David Richardson, Nancy Simmons, Maarten Trekels, Nathan Upham
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Groom Q, Adriaens T, Bertolino S, Phelps K, Poelen JH, Reeder DM, Richardson DM, Simmons N, Trekels M, Upham N (2022) The Importance of Collecting and Archiving Data on Domestic and Cultivated Organisms. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e90864. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.90864
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At least 29% of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems have been significantly modified by human activity (
Domestic and cultivated organisms are not isolated from wild organisms and indeed they interact in many ways, including predation, parasitism, and herbivory, competition for biotic and abiotic resources, and pathogen transmission. If we are to understand modern ecosystems, clearly we cannot ignore the domesticated and cultivated components of ecosystems. So where are the observational data on these species? iNaturalist reluctantly tolerates them but does not publish them to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), eBird actively discourages recording them, and GBIF doesn’t encourage their submission either. Some information can be gleaned from land cover maps and remote sensing, but without knowing the specific species present in the land use category it is hard to build a holistic picture of an ecosystem. Data on domesticated and cultivated organisms have many uses, including horizon scanning and risk assessment for invasive species, understanding the impacts of invasive species, predicting the spread of disease, the spillover of disease to and from wild and domestic organisms, and many others (
Evidently there are important components of ecosystems largely missing from our public databases. As data on biodiversity becomes more intergrated, such as implementing Digital Extended Specimens (
agriculture, anthropogenic, data publication, ecosystems
Quentin Groom
TDWG 2022
This work was supported by WorldFAIR a Coordination and Support Action (Grant Agreement 101058393), funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme of the European Union.