Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal?
Christos ArvanitidisRichard M. WarwickPaul J. SomerfieldChristina PavloudiEvangelos PafilisAnastasis OulasGiorgos ChatzigeorgiouVasilis GerovasileiouTheodoros PatkosNicolas BaillyFrancisco HernándezB. VanhoorneL. VandepitteWard AppeltansRobert D. AdlardPeter AdriaensAhn Kee-JeongAhyong ShaneNesrine AkkariG. E. AndersonAngel MartinClaudia P. ArangoTom ArtoisStephen D. AtkinsonRuud A. BankAnthony D BarberJoão Paulo Araújo BarbosaIlse BartschDenise Bellan‐SantiniJames P. BernotAnnalisa BertaRüdiger BielerMagdalena BłażewiczPhil BockRuth Böttger-SchnackPhilippe BouchetNicole Boury‐EsnaultGeoffrey A. BoxshallChristopher B. BoykoSimone N. BrandãoRod A. BrayNiel L. BruceStephen D. CairnsT.N. BezerraPaco CárdenasBenny KK ChanTin‐Yam ChanLanna ChengMorgan ChurchillLaure CorbariRalf T. S. CordeiroAstrid CornilsKeith A. CrandallThomas CribbJean-Loup d’HondtMeg DalyMikhail E. DaneliyaJean‐Claude DauvinPeter J. F. DavieClaude De BroyerValentin de MazancourtNicole J. de VoogdPeter DeckerDanielle DefayeH.H. DijkstraMartin DohrmannDaryl P. DomningRachel DowneyInna DrapunUrsula Eisendle‐FlöcknerChristine Ewers-SaucedoMarien FaberDiego F. FigueroaJulian FinnGustavo FonsecaEwan FordyceWilliam A. FosterHidetaka FuruyaHoria R. GaleaÓscar García-ÁlvarezRade GarićRebeca GascaSantiago Gaviria-MeloSarah GerkenDavid I. GibsonJoão GilAdriaan GittenbergerChris GlasbySerge GofasSamuel E Gómez-NogueraDavid González‐SolísDennis P. GordonMichał GrabowskiCinzia GraviliJosé M. Guerra‐GarcíaRoberto GuidettiKatja GuiliniKerry A. HadfieldEd A. HendrycksBachiller HerreraJu‐Shey HoJens T. HøegOleksandr HolovachovMatthew D. HoogeJohn N. A. HooperTammy HortonLauren HughesMatúš HyžnýLuiz IF MorettiTohru IsetoViatcheslav N. IvanenkoGerhard JarmsDamià JaumeKrzysztof JażdżewskiIvana KaranovicYoung-Hyo KimRachael A. KingMichelle KlautauJürgen KolbAlexey A. KotovTraudl Krapp-SchickelAntonina KremenetskaiaReinhardt M. KristensenAndreas KrohS. KullanderRafael La PernaSara E. LeCroyDaniel LeducRafael LemaitreAnne‐Nina LörzJ. K. LOWRYEnrique MacphersonLarry MadinTomasz MamosRenata ManconiBruce A. MarshallDavid J. MarshallPatrick MartinSandra J. McInnesJan MeesTõnu MeidlaKelly L. MerrinDmitry M. MiljutinClaudia MillsVadim MokievskyTina N. MolodtsovaRich MooiAndré C. MorandiniRosana Moreira da RochaFabio MoretzsohnJonas MortelmansJeanne A. MortimerLuigi MuscoThomas A. NeubauerEike NeubertPeter NG NeuhausA. D. NguyenClaus Hélix‐NielsenJon L. NorenburgTimothy D. O’HaraHisayo OkahashiDennis M. OpreskoMasayuki OsawaYuzo OtaGustav PaulayVincent PerrierWilliam PerrinIorgu PetrescuBernard PictonJohn PilgerAndrzej PiseraDan A. PolhemusGary C. B. PooreJames Davis ReimerHans ReipMichael G. ReuscherPilar Rios LopezMarc RiusKlaus RützlerA. V. RzhavskyJosé Ignacio Sáiz-SalinasAndré F. SartoriHeinrich SchatzBernd SchierwaterAndreas Schmidt‐RhaesaSimon SchneiderChristine H L SchönbergAndré R. SennaCristiana S. SerejoShabuddin ShaikShokoofeh ShamsiJyotsna SharmaNoa ShenkarAndrew P. ShinnJacek SicińskiVolker SiegelPetra SierwaldElizabeth SimmonsFrédéric SinnigerDuncan SivellBoris ŠketHarry SmitN. SmolJesser F. Souza–FilhoJörg SpeldaSérgio N. StamparEric StienenПавел СтоевSabine StöhrMalin StrandEduardo Suárez‐MoralesMindi M. SummersBillie J. SwallaStefano TaitiMasaatsu TanakaAnne Helene S. TandbergDanny TangMark L. TaskerHarry ten HoveJan J ter PoortenJim ThomasErik V. ThuesenBen ThuyJuan T. TimiM. Antonio TodaroXavier TuronPeter UetzSergiy UtevskyJean VaceletRisto VäinöläSancia E. T. van der MeijTon van HaarenVirág VenekeyChris VosGenefor K. Walker-SmithChad T WalterLes WatlingMatthew T. WaylandChristopher M. WhippsGary C. WilliamsRobin S. WilsonMoriaki YasuharaJoana ZanolWolfgang Zeidler
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Research Infrastructures (RIs) are facilities, resources and services used by the scientific community to conduct research and foster innovation. LifeWatch ERIC has developed various virtual research environments, which include many virtual laboratories (vLabs) offering high computational capacity and comprehensive collaborative platforms that supporting the needs of digital biodiversity science. Over its 250 years of history, the taxonomic research community has developed a system for describing, classifying and naming taxa across multiple levels. For the marine biota, taxonomic information is organized and made publicly available through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) that records more than 250,000 described valid species. Although scientists tend to assign an equal status (in terms of contribution to overall diversity) to each taxon used in taxonomy, biogeography, ecology and biodiversity, the question “ are all taxa equal? ” has never been tested at a global scale. We present evidence that this question can be addressed by applying relatedness indices (Taxonomic Distinctness) over the entire WoRMS metazoan tree. The RvLab, developed by the LifeWatchGreece RI, operating on a high-performance computer cluster, has been used to meet the high computational demands required for such an analysis at a global scale.Keywords:
Taxonomic rank
Biota
Biota
Insular biogeography
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