Abstract
The Wikiplantbase project: the role of amateur botanists in building up large online floristic databases
Highlights
Online databasing of plant diversity data became one of the major issues in biodiversity informatics in recent years
The records include over 90% of the specific and subspecific taxa known for Tuscany and about 70% – but rapidly growing – of those known for Sardinia
The data are stored in seven tables, linked via 0:m or 1:m relationships and are arranged in three groups: 1. Georeferenced floristic records: two tables are included here, linked by a 0:m relationship connecting one record of “georeferenced toponyms” to one or many records of “floristic records”
Summary
Online databasing of plant diversity data became one of the major issues in biodiversity informatics in recent years. An increasing number of databases is available concerning nomenclature and taxonomy, herbarium specimens, invasive alien plant monitoring, plant traits, ecology, vegetation, chromosome numbers, plant rDNA sites, genome size, Peruzzi & al.: The Wikiplantbase project: the role of amateur botanists. There are still few publicly available databases storing detailed information on plant distribution, especially at local level. Floristic records provide baseline data for researches in plant biology, linking a certain systematic unit to the localities where it is known to occur. As printed sources – like e.g. floras – are quickly outdated, researchers must look for updated data in the scientific literature and herbarium specimens As printed sources – like e.g. floras – are quickly outdated, researchers must look for updated data in the scientific literature and herbarium specimens (Bedini & al. 2016, and literature cited therein)
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