Authors
James B Dorey, Erica E Fischer, Paige R Chesshire, Angela Nava-Bolaños, Robert L O’Reilly, Silas Bossert, Shannon M Collins, Elinor M Lichtenberg, Erika M Tucker, Allan Smith-Pardo, Armando Falcon-Brindis, Diego A Guevara, Bruno Ribeiro, Diego de Pedro, John Pickering, Keng-Lou James Hung, Katherine A Parys, Lindsie M McCabe, Matthew S Rogan, Robert L Minckley, Santiago JE Velazco, Terry Griswold, Tracy A Zarrillo, Walter Jetz, Yanina V Sica, Michael C Orr, Laura Melissa Guzman, John S Ascher, Alice C Hughes, Neil S Cobb
Publication date
2023/11/2
Journal
Scientific Data
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
747
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Species occurrence data are foundational for research, conservation, and science communication, but the limited availability and accessibility of reliable data represents a major obstacle, particularly for insects, which face mounting pressures. We present BeeBDC, a new R package, and a global bee occurrence dataset to address this issue. We combined >18.3 million bee occurrence records from multiple public repositories (GBIF, SCAN, iDigBio, USGS, ALA) and smaller datasets, then standardised, flagged, deduplicated, and cleaned the data using the reproducible BeeBDC R-workflow. Specifically, we harmonised species names (following established global taxonomy), country names, and collection dates and, we added record-level flags for a series of potential quality issues. These data are provided in two formats, “cleaned” and “flagged-but-uncleaned”. The BeeBDC package with online documentation …
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