Santiago Velazco and his colleagues are 2022 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge prize winners for their R package bcd. Integrating and cleaning biodiversity data is a critical challenge in Species Diestribution Modeling!
See their paper:
Ribeiro BR, Velazco SJ, Guidoni-Martins K, Tessarolo G, Jardim L, Bachman SP & Loyola R (2022) bdc: A toolkit for standardizing, integrating and cleaning biodiversity data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1421-1428. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13868