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Data Infrastructures for Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoecology & Conservation Palaeobiology

This is a presentation recorded for the 4th Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, iDigBio conference in 2020. (https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.ph...) Full title: Developing Data infrastructures for environmental archaeology, palaeoecology and conservation palaeobiology Authors: Philip I. Buckland and Francesca Pilotto Environmental Archaeology Lab, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious studies, Umeå University Abstract: Data infrastructures linking fossil and modern biodiversity databases are essential for facilitating reproducible, cross-disciplinary data-driven research for long-term studies of climatic and human-driven changes on biodiversity. The Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (biodiversitydata.se) is an initiative integrating multiple biodiversity and environmental databases, including Quaternary fossil data. The latter are part of the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (www.sead.se) and BugsCEP database (www.bugscep.com). The data include European fossil records for over 5000 plant and arthropod taxa from archaeological and Quaternary sites. The resulting infrastructure will be part of the international Living Atlases community (living-atlases.gbif.org/), with SEAD maintaining links to archaeological data through national infrastructures and the European ARIADNE+. We will present this project and some early results of research it enables. We will present some opportunities and challenges encountered, including taxonomic mismatches between modern and palaeoecological databases, conceptual problems with time, and incomplete modern data on distribution, conservation status and ecology. Despite such challenges, the combination of modern and palaeobiodiversity data can, result in better informed species and habitat conservation plans. Species and habitat conservation will benefit from increased interdisciplinary synergies between conservation biology and environmental archaeology.