TY - JOUR
T1 - Big data integration
T2 - Pan-European fungal species observations’ assembly for addressing contemporary questions in ecology and global change biology
AU - Andrew, Carrie
AU - Heegaard, Einar
AU - Kirk, Paul
AU - Bassler, Claus
AU - Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob
AU - Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard
AU - Kuyper, Thomas
AU - Senn-Irlet, Beatrice
AU - Buntgen, Ulf
AU - Diez, Jeffrey
AU - Egli, Simon
AU - Gange, Alan
AU - Rune, Halvorsen
AU - Hoiland, Klaus
AU - Norden, Jenni
AU - Rustoen, Fredrik
AU - Boddy, Lynne
AU - Kauserud, Havard
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Species occurrence observations are increasingly available for scientific analyses through citizen science projects and digitization of museum records, representing a largely untapped ecological resource. When combined with open-source data, there is unparalleled potential for understanding many aspects of organisms’ ecology and biogeography. Here we describe the process of assembling a pan-European mycological meta-database (ClimFun) and integrating it with open-source data to advance the fields of macroecology and biogeography against a backdrop of global change. Initially 7.3 million unique fungal species fruit body records, spanning nine countries, were processed and assembled into 6 million records of more than 10,000 species. This is an extraordinary amount of fungal data to address macro-ecological questions. We provide two examples of fungal species with different life histories, one ectomycorrhizal and one wood decaying, to demonstrate how such continental-scale meta-databases can offer unique insights into climate change effects on fungal phenology and fruiting patterns in recent decades.
AB - Species occurrence observations are increasingly available for scientific analyses through citizen science projects and digitization of museum records, representing a largely untapped ecological resource. When combined with open-source data, there is unparalleled potential for understanding many aspects of organisms’ ecology and biogeography. Here we describe the process of assembling a pan-European mycological meta-database (ClimFun) and integrating it with open-source data to advance the fields of macroecology and biogeography against a backdrop of global change. Initially 7.3 million unique fungal species fruit body records, spanning nine countries, were processed and assembled into 6 million records of more than 10,000 species. This is an extraordinary amount of fungal data to address macro-ecological questions. We provide two examples of fungal species with different life histories, one ectomycorrhizal and one wood decaying, to demonstrate how such continental-scale meta-databases can offer unique insights into climate change effects on fungal phenology and fruiting patterns in recent decades.
KW - Global change
KW - biogeography
KW - fungi
KW - citizen science
KW - open-source
KW - meta-database
U2 - 10.1016/j.fbr.2017.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.fbr.2017.01.001
M3 - Article
VL - 31
SP - 88
EP - 98
JO - Fungal Biology Reviews
JF - Fungal Biology Reviews
IS - 2
ER -