dc.contributor.author
Leigh, Catherine
dc.contributor.author
Laporte, Baptiste
dc.contributor.author
Bonada, Nuria
dc.contributor.author
Fritz, Ken
dc.contributor.author
Pella, Herve
dc.contributor.author
Sauquet, Eric
dc.contributor.author
Tockner, Klement
dc.contributor.author
Datry, Thibault
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T10:30:13Z
dc.date.available
2017-04-28T10:16:03.834Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/20549
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-23850
dc.description.abstract
Key questions dominating contemporary ecological research and management
concern interactions between biodiversity, ecosystem processes, and ecosystem
services provision in the face of global change. This is particularly salient
for freshwater biodiversity and in the context of river drying and flow-regime
change. Rivers that stop flowing and dry, herein intermittent rivers, are
globally prevalent and dynamic ecosystems on which the body of research is
expanding rapidly, consistent with the era of big data. However, the data
encapsulated by this work remain largely fragmented, limiting our ability to
answer the key questions beyond a case-by-case basis. To this end, the
Intermittent River Biodiversity Analysis and Synthesis (IRBAS;
http://irbas.cesab.org) project has collated, analyzed, and synthesized data
from across the world on the biodiversity and environmental characteristics of
intermittent rivers. The IRBAS database integrates and provides free access to
these data, contributing to the growing, and global, knowledge base on these
ubiquitous and important river systems, for both theoretical and applied
advancement. The IRBAS database currently houses over 2000 data samples
collected from six countries across three continents, primarily describing
aquatic invertebrate taxa inhabiting intermittent rivers during flowing
hydrological phases. As such, there is room to expand the biogeographic and
taxonomic coverage, for example, through addition of data collected during
nonflowing and dry hydrological phases. We encourage contributions and provide
guidance on how to contribute and access data. Ultimately, the IRBAS database
serves as a portal, storage, standardization, and discovery tool, enabling
collation, synthesis, and analysis of data to elucidate patterns in river
biodiversity and guide management. Contribution creates high visibility for
datasets, facilitating collaboration. The IRBAS database will grow in content
as the study of intermittent rivers continues and data retrieval will allow
for networking, meta-analyses, and testing of generalizations across multiple
systems, regions, and taxa.
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dc.rights.uri
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation
Ecology and Evolution. - 7 (2017), 3, S. 815-823
dc.title.subtitle
An online database to collate, analyze, and synthesize data on the
biodiversity and ecology of intermittent rivers worldwide
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1002/ece3.2679
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2679/abstract
refubium.affiliation
Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie
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FUDOCS_document_000000026926
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open access