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- 1. Enhancing the World Flora Online IN SUPPORT OF THE GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR PLANT CONSERVATION William Ulate Rodríguez Sr. Project Manager Center for Biodiversity Informatics, IT Division
- 2. Adopted in 2002 Updated for 2011–2020: To halt the loss of plant diversity worldwide by 2020
- 3. Objectives 1. Plant diversity is well understood, documented and recognized; 2. Plant diversity is urgently and effectively conserved; 3. Plant diversity is used in a sustainable and equitable manner; 4. Education and awareness about plant diversity, its role in sustainable livelihoods and importance to all life on Earth is promoted; 5. The capacities and public engagement necessary to implement the Strategy have been developed.
- 4. 2002: Target 1 A working list of known plant species, as a step towards a complete world flora, by 2010
- 5. Previous efforts to catalogue the World’s Plants Early botanists made efforts to comprehensively catalog the world’s plants. Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) It included 6,000 species in about 1,000 genera. Linnaeus eventually expanded his knowledge to cover about 7,700 species of plants. He believed that the world had no more than 10,000 plant species Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)
- 6. Previous efforts to catalogue the World’s Plants De Candolle was among the last people to try to comprehensively catalog the world’s flora. His Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, began in 1824 and eventually ran to 17 volumes Collectively, the volumes of the Prodromus provide treatment for 58,975 species of Dicotyledons and Gymnosperms. The monocots and Ficus were never completed. Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841)
- 8. 2011-2020: Target 1 An online Flora of all known plants by 2020
- 9. What is WFO?
- 10. WFO: An International Consortium Memorandum of Understanding 51 Consortium Members
- 12. Endorsement of an International Project Global Partnership for Plant Conservation Endorsement, St Louis, 2011 International Botanical Congress (IBC) Endorsement, Melbourne, 2011
- 13. Organization
- 14. About WFO Portal
- 15. Based on eMonocot Portal software
- 16. A new WFO Portal
- 17. WFO Portal data types Nomenclature & Taxonomy (Backbone) Descriptive Content
- 18. WFO Taxonomic Backbone Global consensus checklist With a unique taxonomic concept Curated by the Botanical Community Taxonomic Experts Networks (TENs) Other specialists Coordinated by the WFO Council Identifying gaps Contacting specialists
- 20. WFO-ID wfo-999####### Dominium wfo-997####### Kingdom wfo-995####### SubKingdom wfo-993####### Division wfo-992####### SubDivision wfo-987####### SuperClass wfo-985####### Class wfo-980####### Subclass wfo-950####### SuperOrder wfo-900####### Order wfo-850####### Suborder wfo-700####### Family wfo-650####### Subfamily wfo-550####### SuperTribe wfo-500####### Tribe wfo-450####### Subtribe wfo-400####### Genus wfo-350####### SUBGENUS wfo-340####### Section wfo-300####### Subsection wfo-280####### Series wfo-270####### Subseries wfo-000####### Species Subspecies Variety Subvariety Form Subform WFO-IDs have the form: 'WFO-<unique 10-digits number>'
- 21. WFO Taxonomic Backbone in the WFO Portal • APG IV (2016) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181 (1): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385 PPG I (2016) A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54 (6): 563-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12229 Buck W, Shaw A, Goffinet B (2008) Morphology, anatomy, and classification of the Bryophyta. In: Goffinet B, Shaw A (Eds) Bryophyte Biology. Cambridge University Press Söderström L, et al. World checklist of hornworts and liverworts. PhytoKeys 59: 1-828. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.59.6261 21
- 23. IUCN Extracted information from IUCN website to link to Red List assessments Name Matched 56,351 assessments 23
- 24. Some Target Audiences Conservationists Especially those who are working on GSPC Targets and other CDB areas Conservation Scientists Conservation Planners/Policy Makers Invasive species researchers Sustainable use researchers Economic Botanists/Ethnobotanists Plant Taxonomists Other Scientists Ecologists Anthropologists Archaeologists Pharmacologists General Interest Groups Natural historians, citizen scientists, etc. Primary data providers Information converters Taxonomic curators Expert taxonomic reviewers Technical data/system manager Consumers Contributors Other stakeholders
- 25. Use cases Analysis and Prioritization
- 26. WFO Descriptive Content TAXONOMIC BACK BONE Descriptions Distributions Vernacular Names Images Conservation Status Habit, Habitat, etc.
- 27. A page for each name
- 28. 19th IBC, Shenzhen, China, July 2017
- 29. GSPC Report at 19th IBC Shenzen, China Jul. 2017
- 30. Download
- 31. World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants TAXON Journal DOI: 10.1002/tax.12373
- 32. WorldFlora R package Kindt, R. 2020. WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online taxonomic backbone data. Applications in Plant Sciences 8(9): e11388. doi:10.1002/aps3.11388
- 33. WFO gets a New Look, a major data update, and launches the WFO plant list Taxon. Vol. 70, Issue 6. Dec. 2021 pg.1418- 1419 DOI: 10.1002/tax.12557
- 38. A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base “Full integration across databases will require tackling the major impediments to data integration: taxonomic incompatibility, lags in data exchange, barriers to effective data synchronization, and isolation of individual initiatives.” […] "Ultimately, the solution to this impasse [of taxonomic instability and decreased compatibility among databases] will likely be the use of static, versioned ‘snapshots’ of actively curated taxonomic databases maintained through a collaboration of global taxonomic experts and biodiversity institutions. An example is the recently initiated World Flora Online." Feng et al. 2022 DOI: 10.1111/geb.13497
- 39. contact@worldfloraonline.org Taxonomist or local researcher making sure their plant, their group or the plant in their area are included. Students or young scientists doing their research Programmer developing tools to access the information Looking for common names in a language Offering to provide images or indicating errors in the existing ones Citizen Science and Ecostsystems studies
- 41. Post-2020 biodiversity framework Ensure that accessibility is improved to meet the needs of users verification of the correct names and synonymy up-to-date geographic distributional information comprehensive descriptions verified images and conservation assessments Focus on making such data more relevant for users enhance and build the capacity of the community of plant experts supporting information systems providing new tools for identification (keys, pictures and descriptions) include local and vernacular names where possible provide data in the most relevant languages, when possible The Development of a Post-2020 GSPC as a component of the Global Biodiversity Framework CBD/SBSTTA/24/INF/20
- 44. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- 1. Presentation (slide with Name, position)
- The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation marked an important advance in raising awareness of the threats faced by plants worldwide, as well as providing, for the first time, a coherent framework for policy and action needed to halt the loss of plant diversity. It has been updated for a second phase with 16 targets providing the basis to monitor progress towards the ultimate goal of halting the loss of plant species by 2020, and contributing towards the wider Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
- The aim of the GSPC is to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity and to secure a positive, sustainable future where human activities support the diversity of plant life, and where in turn the diversity of plants support and improve our livelihoods and well-being.
- The first target of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation was the establishment of a list of all known species. Through collaboration between the largest databases grouped by the work of Kew Botanical Gardens and the Missouri Botanical Garden, this list was created in 2010.
- After Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and de Candolle (1778–1841) this is was the third time in the botanic history of the world that a global list of plants was achieved. *The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. It aimed to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant and of Bryophytes.
- The World Flora Online Project was established in response to Target 1 of the updated GSPC. A Flora that includes accepted names and a comprehensive synonymy, built on the latest version of The Plant List. The project is based too on the observation that many parties are implementing digital flora projects at national levels.
- 2. What is WFO?
- WFO is organized in the framework of a consortium of institutions, which have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Opened for signature in January 2013, the Consortium of WFO comprises now a total of 51 worldwide partner institutions.
- El proyecto La Flora Mundial en Línea pretende convertirse en un recurso fundamental y verificado que documente todas las plantas conocidas en el mundo. Proporcionará capacidades de búsqueda con información verificada y nuevos datos, y se vinculará con otras bases de datos y catálogos de especies existentes.
- The WFO Project is supported by the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation since 2011 whose main objective is to promote the implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in facilitating communication between initiatives pursuing the same goal. The project was also considered a priority at the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in 2011.
- The Consortium is organized into three main entities: the council meets every consortium members and decides on strategic options. Three sub-groups work during the year to the development of the project: the "Taxonomic Working Group" made proposals concerning the classification, taxonomy and the call for experts, and the "Technical Working Group" is working on the architecture of the database, the content of the website, and the electronic tools that need to be developed. WFO-Council, co-chair Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson Technical Working Group, co-chair Chuck Miller, our own MBG VP of IT and CIO (and Walter Berendsohn, Head, Department of Research and Biodiversity Informatics, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem)
- The eMonocot portal was kindly offered by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew,
- A public portal was further adapted from the eMonocot Portal software by the Missouri Botanical Garden. It was initially populated with The Plant List taxonomic backbone augmented by newer taxomomic sources like SolanaceaeSource.org
- To understand its functioning, we have to consider that the Portal is logically divided in two parts: the taxonomic backbone and the descriptive content
- New globally unique IDs were assigned to all known plant names in the WFO, including both vascular and non-vascular plants. These IDs were also cross-referenced with identifiers for those plant names included in the International Plant Names Index (IPNI).
- The World Flora Online Public Portal (www.worldfloraonline.org) is populated with a taxonomic backbone of plant taxonomic data, which integrates the International Plant Name Index (IPNI), World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP, Govaerts et al. 2022), Tropicos, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (A.P.G. 2016), Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (Schüttpelz 2016) and others supplemented, inter alia, by the Global Compositae Checklist and Solanaceae Source. The WFO taxonomic backbone aims at covering all “effectively published” (Turland 2018) plant names that are in use or found in taxonomic literature and to integrate them into a modern phylogeny-based system of classification (Borsch et al. 2020).
- But Taxonomist are only part of the target audiences and contributors. WFO aims to be used by Conservationists, Ecologists, Citizen Scientists, among others.
- And in order to do this, the Council has created and prioritized a list of use cases that was prioritized in Phases according to the importance and feasibility
- Descriptive content can be textual descriptions, images, geographic distributions, identification keys, phylogenetic trees, as well as atomized data like threat status, life form or habitat.
- It was launched on July 2017 (www.worldfloraonline.org) during the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen, China.
- WorldFlora – R language modules Developed by Roeland Kindt, World Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya Adds WFO Backbone fuzzy name matching to R language programs
- 1,422,002 names, 381,959 from accepted species, 160,127 with descriptions
- Taxonomist or local researcher making sure their plant, their group or the plant in their area are included. Students or young scientists doing their research Programmer developing tools to access the information Looking for common names in a language Offering to provide images or indicating errors in the existing ones Citizen Science and Ecostsystems studies
- As a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is defined, the development of a Post-2020 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation a THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POST-2020 GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR PLANT CONSERVATION AS A COMPONENT OF THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK proposed it is recognized that