Biodiversité

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Le GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility, ou Système mondial d'information sur la biodiversité) est un réseau international dont le but est de mettre à disposition le maximum de données primaires sur la biodiversité via le portail www.gbif.org, de façon libre et gratuite.L’INPN (plateforme nationale du Système d’information de l’inventaire du patrimoine naturel (SINP) contribue au GBIF depuis plusieurs années, en partageant au niveau international les données d’occurrences d’espèces rassemblées par les producteurs de données français sur le territoire national, métropole et outre-mer inclus.

In the French West Indies, more than 20 species of cetaceans have been observed over the last decades. The recognition of this hot spot of biodiversity of marine mammals observed in the French Exclusive Economic Zone of the West Indies motivated the French government to create in 2010 a marine protected area (MPA) dedicated to the conservation of marine mammals: the Agoa sanctuary. Threats that cetacean populations face are multiple but well-documented. Cetacean conservation can only be achieved if relevant and reliable data are available, starting by occurrence data. 

BioInvasions Records is an open access, rapid peer-reviewed international journal of field research on biological invasions in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems from around the world. BioInvasions Records is devoted primarily to publication of research and data papers on records of non-native species. The journal provides the opportunity of timely publication of first records of aquatic and terrestrial invaders and other relevant information needed for online databases, decision support and early warning systems.

L’initiative "Semence en Open Source" s’est lancé dans la création de variétés de légumes libres de droit sur le même modèle que des logiciels informatique comme Linux. L’objectif : contrer Monsanto, Bayer ou Syngenta, trois des cinq géants qui possèdent les droits de propriété sur la quasi-totalité des semences mondiales.

We provide a quantitative description of the French national herbarium vascular plants collection dataset.

Paris est l’une des capitales les plus boisées d’Europe. Si les platanes et les marronniers figurent en tête des essences représentées dans ses rues, la

So-called “big-data” approaches have revolutionized fields of research from astronomy to genetics. Such approaches are not limited to fields that seem inherently technical, because the combination of rapid data collection and advanced analytical techniques could be applied to almost any scientific question. Nathan et al. reviewed how these modern approaches are being applied to the very old field of animal tracking and monitoring. Large-scale data collection can reveal details about how animals use their environment and interact with each other that were impossible to explore previously.

Time-lapse cameras facilitate remote and high-resolution monitoring of wild animal and plant communities, but the image data produced require further processing to be useful. Here we publish pipelines to process raw time-lapse imagery, resulting in count data (number of penguins per image) and ‘nearest neighbour distance’ measurements. The latter provide useful summaries of colony spatial structure (which can indicate phenological stage) and can be used to detect movement – metrics which could be valuable for a number of different monitoring scenarios, including image capture during aerial surveys. We present two alternative pathways for producing counts: (1) via the Zooniverse citizen science project Penguin Watch and (2) via a computer vision algorithm (Pengbot), and share a comparison of citizen science-, machine learning-, and expert- derived counts.

How many species are living on Earth at this moment in time? Ask a few different scientists and you may get drastically different answers.  Most estimates range from 3-10 million distinct species of multicellular organisms; however, when microbial diversity is factored in, the upper bound jumps to nearly a trillion. Having a clear understanding of […]