TAXONSTAND: An R package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases
TAXONSTAND: An R package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases
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DOI：
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00232.x
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发表时间：
2012-12-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Golicher, Duncan J.
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作者：
Cayuela, Luis;Granzow-de la Cerda, Inigo;Golicher, Duncan J.
1.植被数据库的建立对世界范围内植被科学的发展做出了重要贡献。然而，使用植物名称会产生方法问题，特别是在数据来源众多且不同的情况下。其中一个主要问题是在植被列表中可以找到过多的同义词。2.我们提出了Taxonstand，一个r软件包，使用植物列表（http：//www.example.com）自动检索植物名称。www.theplantlist.org该软件包中包含的脚本允许连接到植物列表的在线搜索引擎，并从每个物种检索有关其当前分类状态的信息。在物种名称是同义词的情况下，它将被当前接受的名称取代。此外，这个软件包可以帮助纠正特定修饰语中的拼写错误。3.这一工具极大地便利了大型植被数据库在分析之前的准备工作，特别是当这些数据库涵盖广泛的地理区域（超国家或甚至大陆规模）或包含来自植物区系丰富地区的数据，而这些地区的许多分类群的分类问题尚未解决时。自动化的工作流程，如taxonstand软件包提供的工作流程，可以大大简化这项任务，使用广泛访问的植物物种名称的工作命名权威列表，如植物列表。
1. Compilation of vegetation databases has contributed significantly to the advancement of vegetation science all over the world. Yet, methodological problems result from the use of plant names, particularly in data that originate from numerous and heterogeneous sources. One of the main problems is the inordinate number of synonyms that can be found in vegetation lists. 2. We present Taxonstand, an r package to automatically standardise plant names using The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org). The scripts included in this package allow connection to the online search engine of the Plant List and retrieve information from each species about its current taxonomic status. In those cases where the species name is a synonym, it is replaced by the current accepted name. In addition, this package can help correcting orthographic errors in specific epithets. 3. This tool greatly facilitates the preparation of large vegetation databases prior to their analyses, particularly when they cover broad geographical areas (supranational or even continental scale) or contain data from regions with rich floras where taxonomic problems have not been resolved for many of their taxa. Automated workflows such as the one provided by the taxonstand package can ease considerably this task using a widely accessible working nomenclatural authority list for plant species names such as The Plant List.