biodiversity-data
Biodiversity data refers to the systematic collection, digitization, and analysis of records documenting the diversity, distribution, and abundance of plant species across ecosystems. In plant science, robust biodiversity datasets are essential for tracking how flora responds to environmental change, identifying threatened species, and understanding the ecological relationships that underpin ecosystem function. These data resources also accelerate conservation planning and help researchers detect shifts in plant community composition over time.
PubMed · 2026-04-04
Scientists built CartograPlant, a free web tool that combines plant genetic, physical trait, and environmental data onto interactive maps, helping researchers and land managers understand how plants respond to climate change, pests, and disease across different locations and time periods.
CartograPlant integrates genotypic, phenotypic, and environmental data from georeferenced individual plants into a single unified web platform, solving a long-standing data fragmentation problem in plant science.
Recent updates added new data sources, improved interoperability between datasets, and introduced NextFlow bioinformatics pipelines — significantly expanding the tool's analytical power.
The platform is designed to serve a broad audience including researchers, conservationists, land managers, and plant breeders, making complex eco-evolutionary analysis accessible without specialized programming skills.