WorldFlora: An R package for exact and fuzzy matching of plant names against the World Flora Online Taxonomic Backbone data
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- 9 February 2020
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- Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in bioRxiv
Abstract
Premise of the study: Standardization of plant names is a critical step in various fields of biology including biodiversity, biogeography and vegetation research.WorldFloramatches lists of plant names with a static copy from World Flora Online (WFO), an ongoing global effort of completing an online flora of all known vascular plants and bryophytes by 2020.Methods and results: Based on direct and fuzzy matching,WorldFlorainserts matching cases from the WFO to a submitted data set of with taxa. Results of selecting the expected best single matches are presented for four data sets, including a working list of commercial timber tree species, a subset fromGlobalTreeSearchand 2 data sets used in previous comparisons of software tools for correcting taxon names. The success rate of credible matches varied from 94.7 (568 taxa) to 99.9 (1740 taxa) percent.Conclusions: WorldFloraoffers a straightforward pipeline for semi-automatic plant name checking.Keywords
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- Published version: Applications in Plant Sciences, 8 (9).
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