A Comprehensive Database of Expert-Curated Occurrences for the Genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae)

IF 6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Global Ecology and Biogeography Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI:10.1111/geb.70123

María Sanz-Arnal, Pablo García-Moro, Carmen Benítez-Benítez, Marina Coca-de-la-Iglesia, Angélica Gallego-Narbón, Consolación Barciela, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Prabin Bhandari, Matthew Bradley, Asunción Cano, Antoine Derouaux, Sabina Donadío, Marcial Escudero, Mariela Fabbroni, Kerry A. Ford, Gabriele Galasso, Sebastian Gebauer, M. Socorro González-Elizondo, David Hamon, Matthias H. Hoffmann, Xiao-Feng Jin, Jacob Koopman, Bangze Li, Raúl Lois, Yi-Fei Lu, Modesto Luceño, José Ignacio Márquez-Corro, Santiago Martín-Bravo, Attila Mesterházy, Mónica Míguez, Ana Morales-Alonso, A. Muthama Muasya, Paulo Muñoz-Schüler, Robert F. C. Naczi, Nora Oleas, Luciana Pereira-Silva, Radomír Řepka, Anton A. Reznicek, Katie K. Sanbonmatsu, Enmily Sánchez, Daniel Spalink, Arne Strid, Pieter Vanormelingen, Filip Verloove, Karen L. Wilson, Okihito Yano, Shuren Zhang, Pedro Jiménez-Mejías

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Abstract

Motivation

Geographic occurrences are essential for biodiversity studies, but publicly available repositories like GBIF often contain errors and biases, especially for taxonomically complex groups like Carex L. (Cyperaceae). This work provides an expert-curated global dataset of occurrences compiled from different sources to enhance data accuracy and usability. The final dataset includes 384,067 occurrences of 1790 Carex species.

Main Types of Variables Contained

The dataset includes species occurrence records with geographic coordinates, taxonomic identifications, and curation flags (e.g., introduced, erroneous records).

Spatial Location and Grain

The dataset covers a global scale, using the WGS84 projection. Spatial resolution is standardised to a minimum of three decimal degrees (~1 km, if possible).

Time Period and Grain

Online records span from 1950 to 2020, but some manually georeferenced records are earlier (1850). There is also fieldwork data after 2020, specifically up to 2023.

Major Taxa and Level of Measurement

Cyperaceae: Carex. Most records have species-level identification, and some of them are identified at subspecies or variety levels.

Software Format

Data are supplied as comma-separated values files with UTF-8 encoding.

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一个综合性的专家整理的Carex L.（苏柏科）事件数据库

地理事件对生物多样性研究至关重要，但像GBIF这样的公共数据库经常包含错误和偏差，特别是对于像Carex L. （Cyperaceae）这样的分类复杂的类群。这项工作提供了一个专家策划的从不同来源编译的全球事件数据集，以提高数据的准确性和可用性。最终的数据集包括1790种苔属植物的384,067次出现。

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Global Ecology and Biogeography 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

3.10%

发文量

170

审稿时长

3 months

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