B091
Putting 'Dark Matter’ Biodiversity on the Map: Crosslinking Metagenomics, Phylogenetics and Specimen Occurrence Data Infrastructures to Advance Scientific Understanding and Policy Relevance of Cryptic Biodiversity
Session ID#: 76715
Session Description:
Many organisms like insects, prokaryotes, fungi and viruses, lack formal Linnaean scientific names, inhabiting a huge gap between described species and true global biodiversity. These "dark taxa" are essential to the biosphere, but limited knowledge of their distribution relegates them to the shadows of research and protection policies.
Advances in DNA sequencing and comparative data libraries enable observation and placement of such organisms into operational taxonomic units or directly in the tree of life without Linnaean names.
Collaboration between several international infrastructure networks is linking evidence used by biodiversity, phylogenetics and metagenomics research communities. This cross-disciplinary effort increases open biodiversity data on dark taxa, reduces data gaps and biases, and cost-effectively enhances the value of public infrastructure investments.
Combining this data with occurrences from collections, field surveys and citizen science will open unexplored research horizons, improve evidence for policy decisions, contribute toward biodiversity targets and increase scientific understanding of biodiversity.
Index Terms:
0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
Primary Convener: Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conveners: Emily Jane McTavish, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States and Urmas Kõljalg, University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Tartu, Estonia; University of Tartu, Natural History Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Primary Liaison: Kyle Copas, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark
Biodiversity Dynamics of Arthropod and Plant Communities on an Island Archipelago using Quantitative NGS Metabarcoding and Literature Mining (485961)
Natalie Graham, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Henrik Krehenwinkel, University of Trier, Trier, Germany and Rosemary G Gillespie, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Sequences, samples, specimens, and citizens: crosslinking the global biodiversity data (487701)
Dmitry Schigel1, Robert D. Finn2, Jerry Lanfear3, Thomas Stjernegaard Jeppesen1, Urmas Kõljalg4 and Joseph Miller1, (1)GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, United Kingdom, (3)ELIXIR, Hinxton, United Kingdom, (4)University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
The Need for Semantically Rich Notions of "Taxa" for Interoperability in Biodiversity Informatics (520732)
Mark Holder, University of Kansas, Ecology & Evo. Biol. and Biodiversity Institute, Lawrence, KS, United States, Karen A. Cranston, Independent Software Developer, Ottawa, Canada and Emily Jane McTavish, University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database and EarthLife Consortium: Building Community Data Resources to Mobilize Dark, Long-Tail Records of Past Biodiversity Dynamics (555851)
John W Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Jessica Blois, University of California Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, Eric C Grimm, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Alison J Smith, Kent State University Kent Campus, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States, Mark D Uhen, George Mason University Fairfax, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States and Neotoma Leadership Council
Improving Reference Database Representation of California Aquatic Macroinvertebrates (556705)
Sarah Stinson, University of California Davis, Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, Davis, CA, United States, Richard Connon, University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medicine: Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, Davis, CA, United States and Sharon P Lawler, University of California Davis, Entomology and Nematology, Davis, CA, United States
Diversity of functional genes in deeply branching uncultured microbes (558767)
Andrew D Steen1, Chad Burdyshaw2, Shane E Sawyer3, Taylor M. Royalty4, Karen G Lloyd5 and R. Glenn Brook2, (1)University of Tennessee, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Joint Institute of Computational Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, United States, (5)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
Improving the outcome of metabarcoding methods with taxonomic expertise (621461)
Maria Paula Pappalardo1, Katrina Lohan2, Michael Boyle3, Allen Collins1, Kate Hanson3 and Karen Osborn4, (1)Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States, (3)Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology, Washington DC, United States
Fishing in the dark matter: sorting genuine dark taxa from sequencing artefacts in eDNA samples using comparative methods (627852)
Xin-Yi Chua1,2, David Lovell1 and Annette McGrath2, (1)Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, (2)CSIRO, Data61, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
