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      A database of threat statuses and life-history traits of Red List species in Flanders (northern Belgium)

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          Background

          Red Lists estimate the extinction risk of species at global or regional levels and are important instruments in conservation policies. Global Red List assessments are readily available via the IUCN website ( https://www.iucnredlist.org) and are regularly updated by (taxonomic) experts. Regional Red Lists, however, are not always easy to find and often use local criteria to assess the local extinction risk of species.

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          Here, we publish a database with the outcome of 38 Red List assessments in Flanders (northern Belgium) between 1994 and 2018. In total, the database contains 6,224 records of 5,039 unique taxa pertaining to 24 different taxonomic groups. Using a quality control procedure, we evaluated the criteria used, the number of records, the temporal and spatial distribution of the data and the up-to-dateness of the Red Lists. This way, nineteen Red Lists were approved as being of sufficient high quality (i.e. validated) and nineteen others were not. Once validated, Red Lists are approved by the regional Minister of Environment and published in the Belgian Official Gazette acquiring legal status. For the validated Red Lists, we additionally compiled (life-history) traits that are applicable to a wide variety of species groups (taxonomic kingdom, environment, biotope, nutrient level, dispersal capacity, lifespan and cuddliness). The publication of this dataset allows comparison of Red List statuses with other European regions and countries and permits analyses about how certain (life-history) traits can explain the Red List status of species. The dataset will be regularly updated by adding new Red List (re)assessments and/or additional (life-history) traits.

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          Butterfly diversity loss in Flanders (north Belgium): Europe's worst case scenario?

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            GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

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            The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, often called the Nub taxonomy, is a single synthetic management classification with the goal of covering all names GBIF is dealing with. It's the taxonomic backbone that allows GBIF to integrate name based information from different resources, no matter if these are occurrence datasets, species pages, names from nomenclators or external sources like EOL, Genbank or IUCN. This backbone allows taxonomic search, browse and reporting operations across all those resources in a consistent way and to provide means to crosswalk names from one source to another. It is updated regulary through an automated process in which the Catalogue of Life acts as a starting point also providing the complete higher classification above families. The following 56 sources from the have been used to assemble the GBIF backbone: Catalogue of Life (3175925 names); Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (733720 names); World Register of Marine Species (333396 names); The Plant List with literature (287022 names); The Paleobiology Database (147044 names); Index Fungorum (137347 names); International Plant Names Index (114127 names); Backbone Family Classification Patch (94826 names); Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (69148 names); Artsnavnebasen (33510 names); Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database (32543 names); GRIN Taxonomy (30748 names); The Clements Checklist (19663 names); Dyntaxa - Svensk taxonomisk databas (15173 names); Brazilian Flora Checklist - Brazilian Flora 2020 project - Projeto Flora do Brasil 2020 (13067 names); Mammal Species of the World (6393 names); Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology (5790 names); International Cichorieae Network (ICN): Cichorieae Portal (5032 names); Orthoptera Species File (4826 names); Catalogue of Afrotropical Bees (4640 names); Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN) (4323 names); Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date (4151 names); Taxon list of fungi and fungal-like organisms from Germany compiled by the DGfM (4034 names); IOC World Bird List, v6.3 (3830 names); Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition. (3378 names); Aphid Species File (2232 names); Cockroach Species File (1151 names); Taxon list of vascular plants from Bavaria, Germany compiled in the context of the BFL project (909 names); GBIF Algae Classification (885 names); Mantodea Species File (608 names); ION Taxonomic Hierarchy (572 names); Coreoidea Species File (498 names); Taxon list of Jurassic Pisces of the Tethys Palaeo-Environment compiled at the SNSB-JME (444 names); Taxon list of animals with German names (worldwide) compiled at the SMNS (349 names); Phasmida Species File (294 names); Plecoptera Species File (261 names); Psocodea Species File (197 names); Dermaptera Species File (152 names); GBIF Backbone Patch (115 names); Coleorrhyncha Species File (104 names); Grylloblattodea Species File (51 names); Taxon list of mosses from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (48 names); Embioptera Species File (38 names); True Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) of the Afrotropical Region (36 names); Chrysididae Species File (15 names); Taxon list of liverworts from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (10 names); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (9 names); Taxon list of Diplopoda from Germany in the context of the GBOL project (9 names); Taxon list of Pauropoda from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (8 names); TAXREF (7 names); Taxon list of Pisces and Cyclostoma from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (7 names); Taxon list of Pteridophyta from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (6 names); Mantophasmatodea Species File (1 names); Taxon list of hornworts from Germany compiled in the context of the GBOL project (1 names);
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              Things We Like: Human Preferences among Similar Organisms and Implications for Conservation

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Journal
                Biodivers Data J
                Biodivers Data J
                1
                urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:f9b2e808-c883-5f47-b276-6d62129e4ff4
                urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:245B00E9-BFE5-4B4F-B76E-15C30BA74C02
                Biodiversity Data Journal
                Pensoft Publishers
                1314-2828
                2019
                05 April 2019
                : 7
                : e34089
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) Brussels Belgium
                [2 ] Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Brussels, Belgium Belgian Biodiversity Platform Brussels Belgium
                [3 ] Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels Belgium
                [4 ] Ugent, Ghent, Belgium Ugent Ghent Belgium
                [5 ] Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Geraardsbergen, Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) Geraardsbergen Belgium
                Author notes
                Corresponding authors: Dirk Maes ( dirk.maes@ 123456inbo.be ), Dimitri Brosens ( dimitri.brosens@ 123456inbo.be ).

                Academic editor: Paulo Borges

                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200
                Article
                34089 10765
                10.3897/BDJ.7.e34089
                6477847
                92f564b8-a8c0-42c0-bc8f-d2ef65817213
                Dirk Maes, Dimitri Brosens, Filiep T’jollyn, Peter Desmet, Frederic Piesschaert, Stijn Van Hoey, Tim Adriaens, Wouter Dekoninck, Koen Devos, Koen Lock, Thierry Onkelinx, Jo Packet, Jeroen Speybroeck, Arno Thomaes, Koen Van Den Berge, Wouter Van Landuyt, Hugo Verreycken

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 25 February 2019
                : 28 March 2019
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 11, References: 81
                Categories
                Data Paper (Biosciences)
                Plantae
                Animalia
                Biodiversity & Conservation
                Cenozoic
                Europe

                red list,flanders (northern belgium),life-history traits,iucn,threatened species,conservation

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