Collaborative Research: ABI Development: Advancing Map of Life's Impact and Capacity for Sharing, Integrating, and Using Global Spatial Biodiversity Knowledge

合作研究：ABI 开发：推进生命影响地图和共享、整合和使用全球空间生物多样性知识的能力

• 批准号: 1262610
• 负责人: Robert Guralnick
• 金额: $ 57.7万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-03-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262610&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ABI; Development; Advancing

An award is made to Yale University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University to advance content provision and development of the existing prototype Map of Life platform. Knowledge about the geographic occurrence of species is at the heart of much of ecology, evolution and conservation, and of tremendous societal importance. While digital species distribution products exist, they remain un-integrated and cannot serve critical societal needs. The Map of Life platform was developed to begin to solve this need. A key goal of this project is to use novel approaches to mobilize and integrate diverse types of data such that their collective strengths overcome individual weaknesses. Specifically, this project will combine, on a single website, a variety of distribution data types from many different sources, range products that integrate these, deductively and inductively modeled predictions, and reports about the spatial and environmental knowledgebase for species. When completed, users from across a broad spectrum, from researchers with published data to citizen scientists, will be able to upload data, edit input or output and directly improve or comment on maps, iteratively leading to improved species distribution knowledge. Users will be able to directly query or download any redistributable content. Map of Life will thus facilitate a dramatically improved and rigorous accounting of the spatial context of species in science and will likely benefit scientists across the biological, environmental and social sciences.Given that species range maps are one of the most commonly used and familiar information products in biology, the potential broader impacts and benefits of Map of Life to society are remarkable. Species distribution knowledge ties to one of the greatest challenges of our time: explaining the links between biodiversity, ecosystems and human health, and how ongoing global environmental changes are impacting our natural heritage and capital. Opportunity abounds for strong educational uses of the Map of Life infrastructure. An exciting step will be the production of video tutorials covering how Map of Life works and how it can serve an important role in biodiversity knowledge creation, along with explaining core concepts about species ranges, biodiversity, and how to measure its change. Such videos are scalable means to reach large audiences and will be coordinated through the PIs and their institutional outreach programs. More information about this project can be found at: www.mappinglife.org.

耶鲁大学、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校和康奈尔大学被授予一个奖项，以促进现有生活地图原型平台的内容提供和开发。有关物种地理分布的知识是许多生态学、进化和保护的核心，具有巨大的社会重要性。虽然存在数字物种分布产品，但它们仍然没有整合，不能满足关键的社会需求。生活地图平台就是为了解决这一需求而开发的。该项目的一个关键目标是使用新的方法调动和整合不同类型的数据，以便它们的集体优势克服个人的劣势。具体地说，该项目将在一个网站上结合来自许多不同来源的各种分布数据类型、整合这些数据的各种产品、演绎和归纳建模预测，以及关于物种空间和环境知识库的报告。完成后，来自广泛领域的用户，从拥有已公布数据的研究人员到公民科学家，将能够上传数据、编辑输入或输出，并直接改进或评论地图，反复带来改进的物种分布知识。用户将能够直接查询或下载任何可再分发的内容。因此，生命地图将促进对科学中物种空间背景的显著改进和严格核算，并可能使生物、环境和社会科学领域的科学家受益。鉴于物种范围图是生物学中最常用和最熟悉的信息产品之一，生命地图对社会的潜在更广泛影响和好处是显著的。物种分布知识与我们这个时代最大的挑战之一有关：解释生物多样性、生态系统和人类健康之间的联系，以及正在进行的全球环境变化如何影响我们的自然遗产和资本。生活地图基础设施的强大教育用途机会比比皆是。一个令人兴奋的步骤是制作视频教程，介绍生命地图是如何工作的，它如何在生物多样性知识创造中发挥重要作用，以及解释关于物种范围、生物多样性以及如何衡量其变化的核心概念。这类视频是接触大量受众的可扩展手段，将通过私人投资机构及其机构外联方案进行协调。有关该项目的更多信息，请访问：www.mappinglife.org。