Grattarola Florencia, González Andrés, Mai Patricia, Cappuccio Laura, Fagúndez-Pachón César, Rossi Florencia, Teixeira de Mello Franco, Urtado Lucía, Pincheira-Donoso Daniel
School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Lincoln United Kingdom.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo, Uruguay Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Montevideo Uruguay.
Biodivers Data J. 2020 Oct 26;8:e56850. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e56850. eCollection 2020.
South America hosts some of the world's most prominent biodiversity hotspots. Yet, Uruguay - a country where multiple major ecosystems converge - ranks amongst the countries with the lowest levels of available digital biodiversity data in the continent. Such prevalent data scarcity has significantly undermined our ability to progress towards evidence-based conservation actions - a critical limitation for a country with a strong focus on agricultural industries and only 1.3% of the land surface guarded by protected areas. Under today's rapid biodiversity loss and environmental changes, the need for open-access biodiversity data is more pressing than ever before. To address this national issue, Biodiversidata - Uruguay's first Consortium of Biodiversity Data - has recently emerged with the aim of assembling a constantly growing database for the biodiversity of this country. While the first phase of the project targeted vertebrate biodiversity, the second phase presented in this paper spans the biodiversity of plants.
As part of the second phase of the Biodiversidata initiative, we present the first comprehensive open-access species-level database of the vascular plant diversity recorded in Uruguay to date (i.e. all species for which data are currently available and species presence has been confirmed). It contains 12,470 occurrence records from across 1,648 species and 160 families, which roughly represents 60% of the total recorded flora of Uruguay. The primary biodiversity data include extant native and introduced species from the lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms groups. Records were collated from multiple sources, including data available in peer-reviewed scientific literature, institutional scientific collections and datasets contributed by members of the Biodiversidata initiative. The complete database can be accessed at the Zenodo repository: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3954406.
南美洲拥有世界上一些最显著的生物多样性热点地区。然而，乌拉圭——一个多种主要生态系统交汇的国家——在该大陆可用数字生物多样性数据水平最低的国家中名列前茅。如此普遍的数据稀缺严重削弱了我们朝着基于证据的保护行动迈进的能力——这对一个高度重视农业产业且仅有1.3%的陆地面积受保护区保护的国家来说是一个关键限制。在当今生物多样性快速丧失和环境变化的情况下，对开放获取生物多样性数据的需求比以往任何时候都更加迫切。为解决这一国家问题，乌拉圭首个生物多样性数据联盟“生物多样性数据”（Biodiversidata）最近成立，旨在为该国的生物多样性建立一个不断增长的数据库。虽然该项目的第一阶段针对脊椎动物生物多样性，但本文介绍的第二阶段涵盖了植物生物多样性。
作为“生物多样性数据”倡议第二阶段的一部分，我们展示了乌拉圭迄今记录的维管植物多样性的首个全面开放获取的物种级数据库（即所有目前有数据且物种存在已得到确认的物种）。它包含来自1648个物种和160个科的12470条出现记录，大致代表了乌拉圭记录的植物区系总数的60%。主要生物多样性数据包括石松类植物、蕨类植物、裸子植物和被子植物类群中的现存本地和引入物种。记录是从多个来源整理而来的，包括同行评审科学文献中可用的数据、机构科学收藏以及“生物多样性数据”倡议成员提供的数据集。完整数据库可在Zenodo存储库访问：doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3954406。
