Biodiversity Informatics and Plant Conservation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetic Resources".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1513
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biodiversity informatics; citizen science; taxonomy and ecology of lichenicolous fungi; plant conservation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a consequence of global changes, we are losing biological diversity at an increasing pace. Thus, biodiversity conservation is a global concern, and conservation efforts are being carried out at different scales.
Plant conservation encompasses a wide array of activities aimed at preventing plants’ diversity loss, at local, regional and global levels. It ranges from in situ and ex situ conservation actions, to education and awareness-raising programs, the prevention and control of alien invasive species, recovery and restoration, etc. Some of these activities are also carried out with the contribution of volunteers.
These efforts can benefit from advancements in the field of biodiversity informatics through the application of information technologies to the management, analysis, and interpretation of biodiversity data. Applications and research in the field of biodiversity informatics encompass the entire “life” of biodiversity data, from their production, field activities, or mobilization of natural history specimens and literature data, to their use in inferring past, present, and future scenarios of plant diversity in view of the possible scenarios foreseen as consequences of global changes.
This Special Issue is open to all types of research in the field of biodiversity informatics applied to plant conservation.
Dr. Stefano Martellos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- apps
- awareness raising
- biodiversity data gathering
- citizen science
- digital accessible knowledge (DAK)
- digitization
- global change ecology
- invasive alien species (IAS)
- mobilization of biodiversity data
- plant diversity
- species distribution models (SDMs)
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