Biodiversity information platform for plant research of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese Field HerbariumInstitute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesThe established biodiversity information platform.Compared with 100 years ago, today'sscience and technologyHighly developed, global positioning systemDigitalMultimedia technologyInternet technologyIt makes information acquisition and positioning unprecedented convenient, and a large number of people use digital cameras andGPSThe equipment records the plants they see and communicates on the Internet.In this way, it has become possible to regard the earth as a living herbarium: let all people participate in management, preserve biological populations in the field, and publish, manage and use biodiversity information on the Internet.
The "China Natural Herbarium" provides solutions for the management of individual biodiversity information, and encourages experts and volunteers to work together in the form of citizen science to jointly promote the investigation and monitoring of national biodiversity.As of October 2017, it has 15146 registered users, more than 9059993 biological pictures, 6132959 identification photos, 1134090 digital specimens, and more than 40000 identified (including subspecies grades)Biology, more than 200 substations have been established.[1]Since June 2009, an average of about 3000 new photos have been added every day, which has become a rapidly growing source of original information on plant diversity and promoted the scientific popularization of biodiversity throughout the country and the development of field biodiversity survey and monitoring.
The Chinese Natural Herbarium provides completespeciesInformation, including name, classification systempictureas well asliterature、specimenAnd other related resources.In order to find the target species quickly, the website provides flexible species query methods.
Latin scientific name query
Any Latin scientific name query can be used in the species library.If Latin synonyms are used for query, the related accepted names will be automatically called out.It can be queried accurately or fuzzily.
Chinese name query
The website contains a large number of Chinese names. Users can use any Chinese name they are familiar with to query, and then select their target species in the query results.
Photo storage service
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After registering, each user will immediately have a personal image library, where they can create many albums according to their personal preferences and upload photos to the album.When creating an album, you can set the access rights of the album, which can be divided into three types: public, protected sharing, and private.You can upload in batches or individually.
After the photos are uploaded to the website, a copy (with author's watermark) and icon with a width of 1024 pixels will be automatically generated for web browsing. At the same time, the original image is saved in the database, and the author can download it at any time.Other users can browse the copy image of the public and protected shared photos, but cannot download the original image.
Species identification services
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The website provides convenient methods for species identification.
1. If there is a correct plant name in the uploaded photo file name, the website will automatically extract and generate identification tags after uploading;
2. After uploading photos, identify them in batches in the album;
3. Click on the picture to browse the large picture, and quickly identify on the picture frame;
4. Use temporary identification tags for identification.
Photo reference service
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Photos on the website can be referenced to various forums using simple reference code.There is a reference code copy function on the photo album and photo large picture, providing a variety of different reference code formats for use in different forum programs.
Species list generation
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After photo species identification, the website can automatically generate a species list for each album, all photos of each user, and species of the entire website.The species list has a variety of formats, which can be automatically updated with the update of species identification.
