Global and national biodiversity initiatives, socio-economic potential, and scalability of reintroduction of fungi into dead wood

2018

Data sharing, data archival and data citation are new, but increasingly important elements of the scholarly activities. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) aggregates data, shared by a global network of publishing organisations: natural history museums, citizen science organisations, and, importantly, national biodiversity data systems, such as FinBIF. Data on the rare species are often stored in the restricted access databases for red-listing. Availability of background distribution data is essential for biodiversity monitoring and assigning species with threat categories. What happens after species go regionally extinct? Approaches to reverse regional extinctions include habit…