Biodiversity Information Science and Standards :
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Corresponding author: Emily L Sandall (sandall.emily@gmail.com)
Received: 29 Aug 2022 | Published: 07 Sep 2022
© 2022 Emily Sandall, Aurore Maureaud, Robert Guralnick, Melodie McGeoch, Yanina Sica, Matthew Rogan, Doug Booher, Mark Costello, Robert Edwards, Nico Franz, Kate Ingenloff, Maisha Lucas, Charles Marsh, Jennifer McGowan, Stefan Pinkert, Ajay Ranipeta, Peter Uetz, John Wieczorek, Walter Jetz
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Sandall EL, Maureaud AA, Guralnick R, McGeoch M, Sica YV, Rogan M, Booher D, Costello MJ, Edwards R, Franz N, Ingenloff K, Lucas M, Marsh CJ, McGowan J, Pinkert S, Ranipeta A, Uetz P, Wieczorek J, Jetz W (2022) Getting the GIST: Testing an integrative data structure for linking taxonomy, biodiversity and conservation. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e94209. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.94209
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Assessing and addressing biodiversity needs are of critical and time-sensitive importance, with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’s Global Taxonomy Initiative underscoring the need to build capacity in how we conceptualize biodiversity (
Taxonomy provides a critical link between biodiversity data types and databases. Efforts towards global taxonomic integration are confounded by insufficient connectivity between taxonomic assemblages, with implications for research, monitoring, and conservation practice (
taxonomic backbone, integrative science, data linkage, social infrastructure
Emily L. Sandall & Aurore A. Maureaud
TDWG 2022