A new paper Creating the vision of rapid, repeatable, reactive data workflows for policy on biodiversity presents B-Cubed’s perspective and how the project contributes to more efficient biodiversity monitoring. 

The paper outlines the challenges faced by biodiversity management and policy, and the steps that need to be taken in order to make them more effective. As biodiversity data sources are diverse, the data collected is scattered and easily becomes outdated. In that context, applying standardised methods and workflows for data management and analysis, such as data cubes, allows easier access to complex information, cost-effectiveness in biodiversity data management, as well as easier analysis of large datasets. 

B-Cubed, as a Horizon Europe-funded project, is developing the needed data products in the form of biodiversity data cubes and repeatable workflows. With the new GBIF service, developed as part of B-Cubed, data cubes can be downloaded by users. Cubes harmonise observations collected at different scales and resolutions, account for uncertainty, and retain much more information than traditional coarse-grid methods. Using these products helps bridge the gap between policy-makers, bioinformatics, and data collectors and improves biodiversity management and monitoring. 

Read the paper here.