Olaf Bánki

Jun 27, 2024 | catalogueoflife.org | Olaf Bánki

June 27, 2024 / by Olaf Bánki Permanent identifier: https://doi.org/10.48580/dg9ldCatalogue of Life (COL) is an assembly of expert-based global species checklists with the aim to build a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. As a global consortium, we aim to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species.

Mar 10, 2024 | nature.com | Florian Wittmann |Rafael Assis |Aline Lopes |Rafael P. Salomão |Olaf Bánki |Carlos A. Peres | +68 more

AbstractAmazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding forest types is still far too limited, particularly as changing inundation regimes begin to reshape floodplain tree communities and the critical ecosystem functions they underpin.

Sep 18, 2023 | paperity.org | Olaf Bánki |Markus Döring |Thomas Jeppesen

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Aug 2023 ChecklistBank, developed by Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), is a publishing platform and open data repository focused on taxonomic and nomenclatural data sets (checklists). It contains close to 50K datasets, mostly originating from digitised peer reviewed scientific articles mediated by Plazi, amongst others. The COL Checklist (Bánki et al.

Sep 14, 2023 | paperity.org | Camila Plata |Markus Döring |Olaf Bánki |Diana Hernández-Robles

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Aug 2023 The Catalogue of Life (COL) Checklist 2023 (Bánki et al. 2023) includes over 2.1 million accepted species underpinned by a large international community of more than 500 expert taxonomists. The 164 supporting sources are available through ChecklistBank, a publishing platform and open data respository with a focus on taxonomic and nomenclatural data sources.

Sep 5, 2023 | paperity.org | Olaf Bánki |Donald Hobern |Markus Döring

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Aug 2023 ChecklistBank, co-developed by Catalogue of Life (COL) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), provides a suite of functionalities for building taxonomic data solutions. In addition to serving as a publishing platform and open data repository for taxonomic and nomenclatural data, ChecklistBank includes tools for managing the assembly of new species lists from other datasets published to the platform.