Biodiversity databases should gain support from journals

摘要

Good biodiversity data are fundamental to biodiversity research, natural resource management and conservation policy making. However, owing to challenges such as funding and scientist involvement, gathering data into public biodiversity databases is not easy [1]. Recently, a group of key journals in evolution and ecology began to implement formally a joint data-archiving policy with the aim to preserve paper-related data [2]. This is a good example of how the scientific community promotes efforts in data sharing. We suggest here that biodiversity databases should seek cooperation and coordination with biodiversity and conservation journals. Adoption of a dataarchiving policy by such journals would sustainably increase the data quantity and quality of biodiversity databases.