Such standardized and readily accessible datasets facilitate data management, taxonomic comparisons and compilation of global metastudies.
Species were selected to provide data for previously unmeasured species and to test estimates of isoprene emission rates based upon taxonomic relationships developed for compilation of biogenic emission inventories as proposed by Benjamin et al. (1996, Atmospheric Environment 30, 1437 1452).
This catalogue represents an exhaustive compilation of taxonomic and distributional data for 2587 species of the Brazilian freshwater ichthyofauna, and involved the collaboration of 39 ichthyologists, from most major institutions actively involved in studying Brazilian freshwater fish diversity[16].
Compilation... compilers?
For example, perhaps the most influential compilation of avian taxonomic names in New Guinea was Ernst Mayr's checklist that includes 22 races of C. megarhyncha [71].
Second, the diversity of many habitats has not been compiled for all taxonomic groups (e.g., intertidal rocky shores, deep sea), and data compilations are based on short-term, directed research programs or longer-term monitoring activities with limited spatial resolution.
Compilations of freely available taxonomic data sets such as this fulfil the mandate of the "Biodiversity Commons" [ 30].
A compilation should span the breadth of taxonomic diversity and should contain a sampling of frequent occurrences as well as all known instances of rare and unique ones.
The compilation of lists of species for all significant taxonomic groups that live only in these areas might provide a tool for creating lists of putatively extinct species, and allow the programming of surveys to ascertain their conservation state (Boero and Gravili 2013).
A census of all organisms, including plants, will require intensive discovery and compilation (and in some cases, translation) of a wide variety of taxonomic works for the North Pacific, including those from Japan and Russia, two countries that have done significant research in northern waters for decades.
