Beyond maps: a review of the applications of biological records
Beyond maps: a review of the applications of biological records
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DOI：
10.1111/bij.12517
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Isaac, Nick J. B.
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作者：
Powney, Gary D.;Isaac, Nick J. B.
生物记录是许多研究领域最重要的数据来源之一。例如，它们的应用对气候变化生态学做出了宝贵的贡献，用于监测物种范围的变化；保护生态学，在那里它们被用来评估物种的红色名录状态；在生物地理学中，它们被用来突出生物多样性的热点。生物记录的一个主要好处是覆盖的空间范围大，数据的空间精度高：这种组合对于任何希望解决有关生物多样性和环境变化的大规模问题的生态学家来说都是必不可少的。由于大多数生物记录都是由大量志愿者记录者收集的，因此利用生物记录进行的研究具有大规模长期数据的优势，否则收集这些数据的成本将是不可行的。从生物地理学、趋势评估、气候变化生态学和保护生物学四个重点领域综述了生物记录在生物多样性研究中的应用。我们展示了生物记录所带来的见解的多样性，这反过来又说明了自愿记录社区对我们理解生物多样性科学的贡献。(c) 2015年伦敦林奈学会。
Biological records are one of the most important sources of data for a large number of research areas. For example, their application has made valuable contributions to climate change ecology, where they are used to monitor species range shifts; to conservation ecology, where they are used to assess species' Red List status; and to biogeography, where they are used to highlight hotspots of biodiversity. A major benefit of biological records is the large spatial extent of the coverage combined with the fine spatial precision of the data: this combination is essential for any ecologist hoping to address large-scale questions about biodiversity and environmental change. Because most biological records are collected by a vast pool of volunteer recorders, studies utilizing biological records have the advantage of large-scale long-term data that it would otherwise be unfeasibly expensive to collect. We review the application of biological records by focussing on four key areas of biodiversity research: biogeography, trend assessments, climate change ecology, and conservation biology. We showcase the diversity of insights that biological records have delivered, which in turn illustrates the contribution of the voluntary recording community to our understanding of biodiversity science.(c) 2015 The Linnean Society of London.