Streiff S. J. R., Ravomanana E. O., Rakotoarinivo M., Pignal M., Pimparé E. P., Erkens R. H. J., Couvreur Thomas. (2024). High-quality herbarium-label transcription by citizen scientists improves taxonomic and spatial representation of the tropical plant family Annonaceae. Adansonia, 46 (18), p. 173-185. ISSN 1280-8571.
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High-quality herbarium-label transcription by citizen scientists improves taxonomic and spatial representation of the tropical plant family Annonaceae
Streiff S. J. R., Ravomanana E. O., Rakotoarinivo M., Pignal M., Pimparé E. P., Erkens R. H. J., Couvreur Thomas
Source
Adansonia, 2024,
46 (18), p. 173-185 ISSN 1280-8571
Herbarium specimens provide an important and central resource for biodiversity research. Making these records digitally available to end-users represents numerous challenges, in particular, transcribing metadata associated with specimen labels. In this study, we used the citizen science initiative 'Les Herbonautes' and the Récolnat network to transcribe specific data from all herbarium specimen labels stored at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris of the large tropical plant family Annonaceae. We compared this database with publicly available global biodiversity repository data and expert checklists. We investigated spatial and taxonomic advances in data availability at the global and country scales. A total of 20 738 specimens were transcribed over the course of more than two years contributing to and significantly extending the previously available specimen and species data for Annonaceae worldwide. We show that several regions, mainly in Africa and South East Asia not
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Sciences du monde végétal [076]
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Etudes, transformation, conservation du milieu naturel [082]
