Data from: Horses in the Cloud: big data exploration and mining of fossil and extant Equus (Mammalia: Equidae)
Extant species of the genus Equus (e.g., horses, asses, and zebras) have a widespread distribution today on all continents except Antarctica. Extinct species of Equus represented by fossils were likewise widely distributed in the Pliocene and even more so during the Pleistocene. In order to understa...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::e3376963534d87833fef5da8763c2508 2023-05-15T13:56:13+02:00 Data from: Horses in the Cloud: big data exploration and mining of fossil and extant Equus (Mammalia: Equidae) MacFadden, Bruce J. Guralnick, Robert P. 2016-01-01 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc2fm undefined unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc2fm https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc2fm lic_creative-commons oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:95442 10.5061/dryad.qc2fm oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:95442 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f re3data_____::r3d100000044 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 Life sciences medicine and health care iDigBio Recent Quaternary Equus Big Data GBIF Paleobiology Database Pliocene Pleistocene biodiversity Global geo envir Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2016 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qc2fm 2023-01-22T17:22:41Z Extant species of the genus Equus (e.g., horses, asses, and zebras) have a widespread distribution today on all continents except Antarctica. Extinct species of Equus represented by fossils were likewise widely distributed in the Pliocene and even more so during the Pleistocene. In order to understand the efficacy of “big data” for (paleo)biogeographic analyses, location records (latitude, longitude) and fossil occurrences for the genus Equus were mined and further explored from six databases, including iDigBio, Paleobiology Database, VertNet, BISON, Neotoma, and GBIF. These were chosen from a priori knowledge of where relevant data might be aggregated. We also realized that these databases have different objectives and data sources and therefore would provide a useful comparative study of the widespread taxon Equus in space and time. The mining of Equus data from these six sources yielded a combined total of 123.8 K location records, including 116.2K fossil specimens. These include individual points that are unique, that is, only occurring in one of these databases, and those that are duplicated in multiple databases. Of the six databases, three (iDigBio, Paleobiology Database, and GBIF) were judged to be the most useful in the Equus use case. Most of the databases are biased toward North American records, thus limiting the reconstruction of the actual distribution of the genus Equus in space and time outside of this continent. Although Equus has a large number of digitally accessible records, fundamentally interesting questions pertaining to evolutionary dynamics and extinction geography are still a challenge for these kinds of biodiversity databases due primarily to the lack of sufficiently dense and precise temporal data. Supp Doc 1 FINALDescription of the Equus search results for three big databases, i.e., VertNet, BISON, and Neotoma.Supp Doc 2 FINALThis is a discussion of a previous search for Equus in which downloaded data from GBIF were incorrectly transposed, resulting in spurious locations on the world ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctica Unknown |
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Extant species of the genus Equus (e.g., horses, asses, and zebras) have a widespread distribution today on all continents except Antarctica. Extinct species of Equus represented by fossils were likewise widely distributed in the Pliocene and even more so during the Pleistocene. In order to understand the efficacy of “big data” for (paleo)biogeographic analyses, location records (latitude, longitude) and fossil occurrences for the genus Equus were mined and further explored from six databases, including iDigBio, Paleobiology Database, VertNet, BISON, Neotoma, and GBIF. These were chosen from a priori knowledge of where relevant data might be aggregated. We also realized that these databases have different objectives and data sources and therefore would provide a useful comparative study of the widespread taxon Equus in space and time. The mining of Equus data from these six sources yielded a combined total of 123.8 K location records, including 116.2K fossil specimens. These include individual points that are unique, that is, only occurring in one of these databases, and those that are duplicated in multiple databases. Of the six databases, three (iDigBio, Paleobiology Database, and GBIF) were judged to be the most useful in the Equus use case. Most of the databases are biased toward North American records, thus limiting the reconstruction of the actual distribution of the genus Equus in space and time outside of this continent. Although Equus has a large number of digitally accessible records, fundamentally interesting questions pertaining to evolutionary dynamics and extinction geography are still a challenge for these kinds of biodiversity databases due primarily to the lack of sufficiently dense and precise temporal data. Supp Doc 1 FINALDescription of the Equus search results for three big databases, i.e., VertNet, BISON, and Neotoma.Supp Doc 2 FINALThis is a discussion of a previous search for Equus in which downloaded data from GBIF were incorrectly transposed, resulting in spurious locations on the world ... |
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Data from: Horses in the Cloud: big data exploration and mining of fossil and extant Equus (Mammalia: Equidae) |
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Data from: Horses in the Cloud: big data exploration and mining of fossil and extant Equus (Mammalia: Equidae) |
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