Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions

Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions

(2020) Roland Kays et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

(2020) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A biodiversity target based on species extinctions

(2020) Mark D. A. Rounsevell et al.   SCIENCE

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

(2020) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

sP lot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

(2019) Helge Bruelheide et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations

(2019) Walter Jetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Protected area targets post-2020

(2019) Piero Visconti et al.   SCIENCE

Improving big citizen science data: Moving beyond haphazard sampling

(2019) Corey T. Callaghan et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Completeness of digital accessible knowledge of the birds of western Africa: Priorities for survey

(2019) Benedictus Freeman et al.   CONDOR

Survey completeness of a global citizen‐science database of bird occurrence

(2019) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Situating Ecology as a Big-Data Science: Current Advances, Challenges, and Solutions

(2018) Scott S Farley et al.   BIOSCIENCE

KnowBR : An application to map the geographical variation of survey effort and identify well-surveyed areas from biodiversity databases

(2018) Jorge M. Lobo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

(2018) Maria Dornelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Developing the global potential of citizen science: Assessing opportunities that benefit people, society and the environment in East Africa

(2018) Michael J.O. Pocock et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

(2017) Julien Troudet et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial Gaps in Global Biodiversity Information and the Role of 
Citizen Science

(2016) Tatsuya Amano et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Most ‘global’ reviews of species’ responses to climate change are not truly global

(2016) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Filling in the GAPS: evaluating completeness and coverage of open-access biodiversity databases in the United States

(2016) Matthew J. Troia et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Languages Are Still a Major Barrier to Global Science

(2016) Tatsuya Amano et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

(2015) E.J. Theobald et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions

(2015) Carsten Meyer et al.   Nature Communications

A global perspective on decadal challenges and priorities in biodiversity informatics

(2015) A Townsend Peterson et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Strategic Actions to Value, Conserve, and Restore the Natural Capital of Megadiversity Countries: The Case of Mexico

(2014) José Sarukhán et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Predicting the conservation status of data-deficient species

(2014) Lucie M. Bland et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Climate-related range shifts - a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

(2014) J. Lenoir et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

(2013) Antoine Guisan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models

(2013) Wenjing Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Four barriers to the global understanding of biodiversity conservation: wealth, language, geographical location and security

(2013) T. Amano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What spatial data do we need to develop global mammal conservation strategies?

(2011) L. Boitani et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating biodiversity distribution knowledge: toward a global map of life

(2011) Walter Jetz et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

eBird: A citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences

(2009) Brian L. Sullivan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The completeness of taxonomic inventories for describing the global diversity and distribution of marine fishes

(2007) C. Mora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES