Review of WorldFAIR Agricultural Plant-Pollinator Data Pilot: Carvalheiro, LG; Barbosa, E.R.M. & Memmott, J. 2008. Pollinator networks, alien species and the conservation of rare plants: Trinia glauca as a case study. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45,1419-1427. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01518.x .

Abstract

Life on earth is sustained by complex interactions between organisms and their environment. These biotic interactions can be captured in datasets and published digitally. We describe a review process of such an openly accessible digital interaction datasets of known origin, and discuss their outcome. The dataset under review (aka globalbioticinteractions/carvalheiro2023) has size  327KiB and contains 542 interactions with 1 (e.g., flowersVisitedBy) unique types of associations between 63 primary taxa (e.g., Scabiosa columbaria) and 171 associated taxa (e.g., Bombus pascuorum). The report includes detailed summaries of interactions data as well as a taxonomic review from multiple perspectives.

Please note that the pilot contributors have opted to shared their review, metadata, and data. This means that data appendices in the data review are openly available in the review archive.