Matthew Kline

Biodiversity Data Scientist

Taxonomic data quality, occurrence records, and botanical benchmarks

Matthew Kline is a biodiversity data scientist specializing in taxonomic authority control, occurrence cleaning, and benchmarked trait datasets. He evaluates PROSEA-style entries against GBIF, World Flora Online, Kew POWO, and peer-reviewed yield or wood-density references. His work emphasizes reproducible methods, uncertainty flags, and transparent thresholds for accepted names, distribution records, conservation status, and economic-botany claims.

PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Michigan MS in Bioinformatics University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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