U.Taxonstand: An R package for standardizing scientific names of plants and animals

IF 4.6 1区生物学 Q1 PLANT SCIENCES

Plant Diversity Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.pld.2022.09.001

Jian Zhang , Hong Qian

引用次数: 21

Abstract

The scientific names of organisms are key identifiers of plants and animals. Correctly treating scientific names is a prerequisite for biodiversity research and documentation. Here, we present an R package, ‘U.Taxonstand’, which can standardize and harmonize scientific names in plant and animal species lists at a fast speed and at a high rate of matching success. Unlike most of other similar R packages each of which works with only one taxonomic database, U.Taxonstand can work with all taxonomic databases, as long as they are properly formatted. Multiple databases for plants and animals that can be directly used by U.Taxonstand, which include bryophytes, vascular plants, amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles, are available online. U.Taxonstand can be a very useful tool for botanists, zoologists, ecologists and biogeographers to standardize and harmonize scientific names of organisms.

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U.Taxonstand:一个用于规范动植物科学名称的R包

生物体的科学名称是植物和动物的关键识别符号。正确对待科学名称是生物多样性研究和文献记录的先决条件。在这里，我们介绍了一个名为“U.Taxonstand”的R包，它可以快速、高匹配成功率地标准化和协调动植物物种列表中的科学名称。与大多数其他类似的R包不同，每个R包只适用于一个分类数据库，U.Taxonstand可以适用于所有分类数据库，只要它们的格式正确。U.Taxonstand可以直接使用的植物和动物的多个数据库，包括苔藓植物、维管植物、两栖动物、鸟类、鱼类、哺乳动物和爬行动物，都可以在线获得。U.Taxonstand对于植物学家、动物学家、生态学家和生物地理学家来说是一个非常有用的工具，可以使生物的科学名称标准化和统一。

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来源期刊

Plant Diversity Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

CiteScore

8.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1863

审稿时长

35 days

期刊介绍： Plant Diversity (formerly Plant Diversity and Resources) is an international plant science journal that publishes substantial original research and review papers that advance our understanding of the past and current distribution of plants, contribute to the development of more phylogenetically accurate taxonomic classifications, present new findings on or insights into evolutionary processes and mechanisms that are of interest to the community of plant systematic and evolutionary biologists. While the focus of the journal is on biodiversity, ecology and evolution of East Asian flora, it is not limited to these topics. Applied evolutionary issues, such as climate change and conservation biology, are welcome, especially if they address conceptual problems. Theoretical papers are equally welcome. Preference is given to concise, clearly written papers focusing on precisely framed questions or hypotheses. Papers that are purely descriptive have a low chance of acceptance. Fields covered by the journal include: plant systematics and taxonomy- evolutionary developmental biology- reproductive biology- phylo- and biogeography- evolutionary ecology- population biology- conservation biology- palaeobotany- molecular evolution- comparative and evolutionary genomics- physiology- biochemistry