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GalliForm, a database of Galliformes occurrence records from the Indo-Malay and Palaearctic, 1800-2008

Boakes, Elizabeth H.; Fuller, Richard A.; Mace, Georgina M.; Ding, Changqing; Ang, Tzo Tze; Auffret, Alistair G.; Clark, Natalie E.; Dunn, Jonathon; Gilbert, Jennifer; Golovnyuk, Viktor; Gupta, Garima; Irlich, Ulrike; Joachim, Emily; O' Connor, Kim; Potapov, Eugene; Potapov, Roald; Schleicher, Judith; Stebbing, Sarah; Townshend, Terry; McGowan, Philip J. K.

Abstract

Historical as well as current species distribution data are needed to track changes in biodiversity. Species distribution data are found in a variety of sources, each of which has its own distinct bias toward certain taxa, time periods or places. We present GalliForm, a database that comprises 186687 galliform occurrence records linked to 118907 localities in Europe and Asia. Records were derived from museums, peer-reviewed and grey literature, unpublished field notes, diaries and correspondence, banding records, atlas records and online birding trip reports. We describe data collection processes, georeferencing methods and quality-control procedures. This database has underpinned several peer-reviewed studies, investigating spatial and temporal bias in biodiversity data, species' geographic range changes and local extirpation patterns. In our rapidly changing world, an understanding of long-term change in species' distributions is key to predicting future impacts of threatening processes such as land use change, over-exploitation of species and climate change. This database, its historical aspect in particular, provides a valuable source of information for further studies in macroecology and biodiversity conservation.

Published in

Scientific Data
2020, Volume: 7, number: 1, article number: 344Publisher: NATURE RESEARCH

    Sustainable Development Goals

    SDG13 Climate action
    SDG15 Life on land

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Ecology
    Zoology

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00690-0

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    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/109468