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Biodiversidata: An open-access Bbodiversity database for Uruguay

The continental and marine territories of Uruguay are characterised by a rich convergence of multiple biogeographic ecoregions of the Neotropics, making this country a peculiar biodiversity spot. However, despite the biological significance of Uruguay for the South American subcontinent, the distrib...

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Main Author: Grattarola, Florencia (author)
Other Authors: Botto, Germán (author), Rosa, Inés da (author), Gobel, Noelia (author), González, Enrique M. (author), González, Javier (author), Hernández, Daniel (author), Laufer Grunvald, Gabriel (author), Maneyro, Raúl (author), Martínez-Lanfranco, Juan A. (author), Rodales, Ana L. (author), Naya Monteverde, Daniel Ernesto (author), Ziegler Brener, Lucía Graciela (author), Pincheira-Donoso, D. (author)
Format: article
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Uruguay
Aves
Mammalia
Biodiversity
Species Occurrence Records
Tetrapods
Amphibia
Reptilia
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/30080
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Summary:The continental and marine territories of Uruguay are characterised by a rich convergence of multiple biogeographic ecoregions of the Neotropics, making this country a peculiar biodiversity spot. However, despite the biological significance of Uruguay for the South American subcontinent, the distribution of biodiversity patterns in this country remain poorly understood, given the severe gaps in available records of geographic species distributions. Currently, national biodiversity datasets are not openly available and, thus, a dominant proportion of the primary biodiversity data produced by researchers and institutions across Uruguay remains highly dispersed and difficult to access for the wider scientific and environmental community. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by developing the first comprehensive, open-access database of biodiversity records for Uruguay (Biodiversidata), which is the result of a large-scale collaboration involving experts working across the entire range of taxonomic diversity found in the country.

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