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National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice.
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- Experiences from national biodiversity data infrastructures in Europe: advancing data integration and community engagement.Bioscience · 2026Article
- From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community.Bioscience · 2026Article
- BON in a Box: An Open and Collaborative Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring, Indicator Calculation, and Reporting.Bioscience · 2026Article
- A unified plant ecology database for Spain.Scientific data · 2026Article
- FAIR digital twins for biodiversity: enabling data, model, and workflow integration.npj biodiversity · 2026Article
- RUM/FILH: a standardized operational capability model for biodiversity databases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- Sampling bias and uneven data coverage shape observed biodiversity patterns in a megadiverse island archipelago hotspot.PloS one · 2026Article
- Eleven tenets for the integrated, evolving and sustainable management of European Research Infrastructure Consortia.Biodiversity data journal · 2026Article
- Globally aggregated biodiversity data impact predictive and descriptive research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Today, at the international level, powerful data portals are available to biodiversity researchers and policymakers, offering increasingly robust computing and network capacities and capable data services for internationally agreed-on standards. These accelerate individual and complex workflows to map data-driven research processes or even to make them possible for the first time. At the national level, however, and alongside these international developments, national infrastructures are needed to take on tasks that cannot be easily funded or addressed internationally. To avoid gaps, as well as redundancies in the research landscape, national tasks and responsibilities must be clearly defined to align efforts with core priorities. In the present article, we outline 10 essential functions of national biodiversity data infrastructures. They serve as key providers, facilitators, mediators, and platforms for effective biodiversity data management, integration, and analysis that require national efforts to foster biodiversity science, policy, and practice.
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