The "Ants of Cyprus" website: a dynamic, online awareness raising and conservation tool.

IF 1.1 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION Biodiversity Data Journal Pub Date : 2025-01-28 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3897/BDJ.13.e141679

Jakovos Demetriou, Christos Georgiadis, Sebastian Salata, Lech Borowiec, Mathias Dillen, Quentin Groom, Evan P Economo, Helen E Roy, Angeliki F Martinou

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Ants are an important arthropod group due to their involvement in ecological processes amongst others as ecosystem engineers or predators, but some invasive alien species are also implicated in detrimental environmental, economic and human health effects. Despite recent advancements, the ant biodiversity of Cyprus is still in need of further research with previous online species inventories synthesising a checklist of just 65 native and 10 alien species. The "Ants of Cyprus" website (https://sites.google.com/view/ants-of-cyprus) aims to: (1) raise public awareness and increase local knowledge on the biodiversity and ecological significance of ants, (2) provide ecological data and (3) enhance conservation efforts and management practices for native and alien ant species, respectively. This dynamic, user-friendly website has been designed for use by the scientific community, conservation officers and the wider public and it will be regularly updated as new information and data are generated. Additionally, this information will be critical for reporting on progress towards biodiversity targets and goals.

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“塞浦路斯蚂蚁”网站：一个动态的在线意识提升和保护工具。

蚂蚁是一种重要的节肢动物，作为生态系统工程师或捕食者参与生态过程，但一些外来入侵物种也涉及有害的环境，经济和人类健康影响。尽管最近取得了进展，塞浦路斯的蚂蚁生物多样性仍然需要进一步的研究，之前的在线物种清单仅合成了65种本地物种和10种外来物种。“塞浦路斯蚂蚁”网站（https://sites.google.com/view/ants-of-cyprus）旨在：(1)提高公众对蚂蚁的生物多样性和生态意义的认识，并增加当地居民的知识；(2)提供生态数据；(3)加强对本地和外来蚂蚁物种的保护和管理措施。这个网页是为科学界、自然护理人员和广大市民而设计的，并会定期更新，以获取新的资料和数据。此外，这些信息对于报告生物多样性具体目标和目标的进展至关重要。

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Biodiversity Data Journal Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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期刊介绍： Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a community peer-reviewed, open-access, comprehensive online platform, designed to accelerate publishing, dissemination and sharing of biodiversity-related data of any kind. All structural elements of the articles – text, morphological descriptions, occurrences, data tables, etc. – will be treated and stored as DATA, in accordance with the Data Publishing Policies and Guidelines of Pensoft Publishers. The journal will publish papers in biodiversity science containing taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, morphological, genomic, phylogenetic, ecological or environmental data on any taxon of any geological age from any part of the world with no lower or upper limit to manuscript size.