ForestForward: visualizing and accessing integrated world forest data from the last 50 years
Database (Oxford) 2025-05-14
Summary:
Mitigating the effects of environmental exploitation on forests requires robust data analysis tools to inform sustainable management strategies and enhance ecosystem resilience. Access to extensive, integrated plant biodiversity data, spanning decades, is essential for this purpose. However, such data are often fragmented across diverse datasets with varying standards, posing two key challenges: first, integrating these datasets into a unified, well-structured data warehouse, and second,...