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2) As climate change alters fire regimes, understanding which species are most adaptable will be increasingly important for predicting and protecting the future of savannah ecosystems. 🌱
Want more? Read about this and 49 other incredible stories using GBIF-mediated data in the #ScienceReview: 🔗https://gbif.link/SR13
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🌱 Fresh off the press: 📖 Introducing the latest edition of the GBIF #ScienceReview! ✨
Science Review No. 13 is a collection of 50 summaries of peer-reviewed scientific papers across 16 topics from the past year. To celebrate 25 years of GBIF, our special section is dedicated to highlighting some of the most impactful research from across our history.🦎
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2) These changes could also affect important ecosystem processes, such as plant feeding and decomposition.🐛
Read more about this study: 🔗https://gbif.link/tropical-arthropods
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2) Under future high-emissions scenarios, more than half of the species are projected to lose suitable habitat and shift northwards, with conifer-associated fungi facing the greatest risks.
Read more about the dynamics of ECM and tree interactions: 🔗https://gbif.link/ECM-fungi
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2) 🔎 While Australia has some of the world's strongest biosecurity measures, domestic trade of native wildlife remains an under-recognized pathway for biological invasions.
Read more: 🔗https://gbif.link/neqgQ
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2) From this, they identified the regions of the richest orchid diversity, where new lineages emerged and how orchids spread geographically over time.
The study highlights Costa Rica and Panama as major centres of orchid diversification, where mountainous landscapes and tropical climates created conditions that accelerated the emergence of new lineages. ⛰️☀️
Read more: https://gbif.link/wWi2T
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🦑 Rough seas ahead for commercial squid species
Greenhouse gases are expected to alter ocean properties, but a recent study hypothesized that squids may benefit from climate change through expanded ranges and abundances. 🔎
Researchers modeled distributions for 12 squid species using GBIF, OBIS and climate data, but results showed regional variation across species.
Read more: 🔗https://gbif.link/science_review_no.12
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Seed-ccessful evolutionary tactics attract birds for seed dispersal 🐦👀
A recent study explored how flowering plant species 🌻 use seed mimicry to attract bird dispersers, revealing that seed mimicry was most commonly observed in tropical regions, especially on coasts and islands. 🏝️
Researchers propose that plants follow an “energy reallocation strategy,” investing in visual cues rather than nutrition to attract birds.🦜
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Hello from #LivingData2025!👋
💙 Come chat to our friendly team at the GBIF booth and pick up some stickers, postcards or a copy of the GBIF #ScienceReview!
If you're up for a challenge, test your knowledge with our GBIF quiz! 👀
We'll be here every day of the conference!
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⭐ The twelfth edition of the GBIF #ScienceReview is officially published! ⭐
The Science Review is an annual compilation of peer-reviewed papers that use data published through GBIF’s global infrastructure.
In this edition, we explore 50 examples of biodiversity data use that cover a wealth of topics, including a feature on human health. 🦇
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Are rare species more common than common species? 🔎
A study by Callaghan et al., downloaded all GBIF-mediated occurrence records between 1880 - end of 2020 🤯to analyze global abundance distributions for 39 classes of eukaryotes. 🐝
It was found that improved sampling and greater data availability over time unveiled the true shape of species distributions. This was most clearly evident in birds.🦆
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🐍 Ancient hissstory informing species distribution
An Ancient Egyptian medial text (~600–330 BCE) details records of 37 venomous snakes in the empire, however somedo not occur in modern-day Egypt.
A study by McBride et al. used GBIF-mediated data and bioclimatic models 🌍 to predict the past distributions of 10 identifiable species with no modern records in Egypt.
Findings suggest all 10 likely to occur in Ancient Egypt 4,000 years ago. ⏳
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A 10/10 review! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Each year, GBIF delivers a #ScienceReview which is an annual snapshot of key research uses drawn from GBIF's literature tracking programme.
Showtaro Kakizoe and Aino T. Ota of #Japan have gone above and beyond 🚀 to translate and print GBIF Science Reviews into Japanese! 🤯
See the most recent Science Reviews with Japanese translations here:
🐧https://www.gbif.org/document/5N9YVBkTP3y7kqhFQviowM/gbif-science-review-no-11
🌿https://www.gbif.org/document/4A5CcgMpChHHaa4ySRGib/gbif-science-review-no-10
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Where the walruses wander 🌊
In a report published in #PolarBiodiversity, historic and contemporary records using mainly GBIF-mediated data were gathered to investigate walrus vagrancy patterns. 🔎
By calculating daily movement rates and using a generalized linear model, 📊 it was suggested that more vagrants are reaching temperate Europe due to increasingly unsuitable conditions and growing population sizes in their natural range.
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A study by Echeverri et al., analyzed patterns of tourism in #CostaRica by examining the role of species richness derived from GBIF-mediated occurrences, as well as access to hotels, roads and water.🌊
Using sources such as eBird checklists and Flickr photos as proxies of bird watching and tourism, the authors found that while access to infrastructure 🚗 were the most important driver, tourism was higher in places with high biodiversity. 🌺
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A study of invasive plants 🌱by Banerjee et al., in #China suggests that phylogenetic relatedness of species in close presence to each other may make introduction and naturalization easier, but difference drives invasion.
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Unwanted guests - exploring how 🌱plant introductions can predict insect invasions 🐛
A study by Bonnamour et al., found strong links between previous plant introductions and current insect invasions, suggesting an insect invasion debt of nearly 3,500 introductions to occur in a near future.
The study analyzed records of insect establishments and plant naturalizations from GBIF-mediated records and other sources using generalized linear mixed models.
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Digging deep into soil using metabarcoding techniques. 🧬
Research by Varsar et al., used soil #eDNA barcoding to analyze plant diversity 🌻 and community composition on a global scale. The results were compared with traditional plant survey methods which showed strong overlap in results, demonstrating the potential of eDNA as a valuable tool for large-scale #biodiversity assessments. 🌏
🔗Read more in the GBIF #ScienceReview: https://www.gbif.org/document/5N9YVBkTP3y7kqhFQviowM/gbif-science-review-no-11
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Harnessing people power 💪
A study by Soroye et al., used a case study of #iNatualist to assess the potential of #CitizenScience in aiding conservation of threatened species.
The study found that although there was evidence of taxonomic bias towards 🐦birds, 🌿 plants & 🦦 mammals, CS data matched or even exceeded threatened species richness in some regions, with >20% of all iNat users contributing data threatened species!
Read more in our #ScienceReview 🔗 https://buff.ly/3Y1AI7T
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Is the grass really greener on the other side, 💚 or was it just transported there by a sea turtle? 🐢
A study by Tavares et al., investigated seagrass population connectivity across the Atlantic ocean through genetic analysis and biophysical modelling.
By analyzing GBIF-mediated occurrences of Halodule wrightii, it was found that long-range dispersal of this species was most likely due to active grazers rather than ocean currents. 🌱🌊
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🌊 Sea-sing new methods to sample biodiversity #data in ocean environments!
A simulation study by Boyse et al. that used GBIF-mediated data showed that sampling from commercial ferry routes ⛴️ can yield less biased biodiversity survey outcomes, with potential global coverage using automated #eDNA sampling!
Learn more about this and other recent biodiversity studies in our #ScienceReview!
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A new #ScienceReview describes methods to enable wireless power transfer and energy harvesting through and within the human body. https://scim.ag/4NG 🤔