GIbase 1.0 Green Infrastructure plant species in England and Scotland

1. The contributions of constructed Green Infrastructure (GI) to biodiversity are often used to justify urban development projects, yet in many cases these contributions have been difficult to quantify. 

2. As a result, a wide range of GI features are designed and implemented, often without knowledge of whether these features contribute meaningfully to biodiversity or if there are biosecurity risks presented by their design or procurement. Our understanding of design practices could be significantly improved if researchers and policy makers were able to draw upon a data resource that recorded the specifications used in development projects and facilitated easy access to them. 

3. In the UK, Planning Portals act as substantial and untapped repositories of grey literature, containing highly detailed data with a diverse spatial coverage, recording the diversity and extent of existing habitats and specifications for proposed species assemblages. However, they are difficult to navigate...

1. 人工构建的绿色基础设施（Green Infrastructure, GI）对生物多样性的贡献常被用作论证城市开发项目合理性的依据，但在多数情况下，这类贡献难以被量化。
2. 正因如此，当前已有大量绿色基础设施被设计并实施，但相关方往往并不清楚这些设施是否能切实助力生物多样性保护，也未意识到其设计或采购环节可能潜藏的生物安全风险。若研究人员与政策制定者能够依托一套记录开发项目所用技术规格、且便于获取的数据集资源，将可显著提升我们对相关设计实践的认知水平。
3. 在英国，规划门户网站（Planning Portals）是规模可观且尚未得到充分挖掘的灰色文献（grey literature）资源库，其中涵盖覆盖范围广泛的详尽数据，记录了现有栖息地的多样性与分布范围，以及拟议物种组合的技术规格。但这类门户网站的导航与使用存在较高门槛……