Human Health, Interagency Coordination, and the Need for Biodiversity Data
Human Health, Interagency Coordination, and the Need for Biodiversity Data
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人类健康、机构间协调和生物多样性数据的需求
DOI：
10.1093/biosci/biaa065
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Bates, John M
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作者：
Zaspel, Jennifer M;Allen, Julie M;Tyrrell, Christopher D;Lemoine, Nate;Jacobus, Luke M;Klem, Crystal;Goodwin, Jillian;Bates, John M
理解人类个体与环境之间的相互联系的重要性从未如此紧迫。当前的全球健康危机表明，人类福祉与自然界是如何相互关联的。与生物多样性有关的健康影响远远超出了SARS-CoV-2等病原体，涉及农业和粮食安全、野生动物和娱乐、清洁水的获取、兽医和心理健康。这强调了迫切需要协调和合作之间的联邦和非联邦资助机构使用生物多样性数据，以解决近期和长期的社会challenges.The基线生物多样性数据的持续收集和增长的理解过程，统一和可能集中生命科学知识的基础。生物多样性数据包括关于生物发生的分类身份、地理位置和时间范围的事实信息，通常包括形态学、遗传学和生态学信息。这些数据以多种形式存在于世界各地的自然历史博物馆和其他研究收藏中。物理标本提供了一种超越标本本身的科学可能性-基因组学，表观遗传学，微生物组表征，同位素分析，X射线荧光光谱法和尚未想象的技术。当这些增强的元数据与物理样本数据相互关联并集中时，它们的力量被放大。
The importance of understanding the interconnectedness of individual humans and the environment has never been more urgent. The current global health crisis illustrates how interlinked human welfare is with the natural world. The health effects related to biodiversity extend far beyond pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 to agriculture and food security, wildlife and recreation, clean water access, veterinary medicine, and psychological well-being. This underscores the urgent need for coordination and collaboration among federal and nonfederal funding agencies using biodiversity data to resolve nearand long-term societal challenges.The continued collection and growth of baseline biodiversity data are fundamental to understanding processes that unify—and possibly centralize—life science knowledge. Biodiversity data consist of factual information regarding the taxonomic identity, geoposition, and timeframe of a biological occurrence and often include information on morphology, genetics, and ecology. Housed in natural history museums and other research collections around the world, these data take many forms. Physical specimens offer a depth of scientific possibility that extends beyond the specimen itself—genomics, epigenetics, microbiome characterization, isotopic analysis, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and technologies yet to be imagined. When these enhanced metadata are interlinked and centralized with physical specimen data, their power is amplified.