About the Authors

Allan Koch Veiga

allan.kv@gmail.com (AKV); saraiva@usp.br (AMS)

Affiliation University of São Paulo, Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Antonio Mauro Saraiva

allan.kv@gmail.com (AKV); saraiva@usp.br (AMS)

Affiliation University of São Paulo, Research Center on Biodiversity and Computing, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Arthur David Chapman

Affiliation Australian Biodiversity Information Services, Ballan, Victoria, Australia

Paul John Morris

Affiliation Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Gendreau

Affiliation Université de Montréal, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Dmitry Schigel

Affiliation Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tim James Robertson

Affiliation Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AKV AMS. Data curation: AKV PJM. Formal analysis: AKV AMS PJM. Funding acquisition: AMS DS. Investigation: AKV AMS. Methodology: AKV AMS. Project administration: AMS ADC DS. Resources: AMS PJM DS. Software: AKV PJM. Supervision: AMS ADC. Validation: AKV PJM. Writing – original draft: AKV AMS ADC CG DS TJR. Writing – review & editing: AKV AMS ADC PJM CG DS TJR.