Reversing extinction trends: new uses of (old) herbarium specimens to accelerate conservation action on threatened species

G Albani Rocchetti, CG Armstrong, T Abeli… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although often not collected specifically for the purposes of conservation, herbarium
specimens offer sufficient information to reconstruct parameters that are needed to …

Ancient plant genomics in archaeology, herbaria, and the environment

L Kistler, VC Bieker, MD Martin… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The ancient DNA revolution of the past 35 years has driven an explosion in the breadth,
nuance, and diversity of questions that are approachable using ancient biomolecules, and …

Improving species delimitation for effective conservation: a case study in the endemic maple‐leaf oak (Quercus acerifolia)

Y Wu, AL Hipp, G Fargo, N Stith, RE Ricklefs - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species delimitation is challenging in lineages that exhibit both high plasticity and
introgression. This challenge can be compounded by collection biases, which may …

Applications of computer vision and machine learning techniques for digitized herbarium specimens: A systematic literature review

BR Hussein, OA Malik, WH Ong, JWF Slik - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Herbaria contain the treasure of millions of specimens that have been preserved for several
years for scientific studies. To increase the rate of scientific discoveries, digitization of these …

Ancient DNA extraction methods for herbarium specimens: When is it worth the effort?

P Marinček, ND Wagner… - Applications in Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Herbaria harbor a tremendous number of plant specimens that are rarely used for
molecular systematic studies, largely due to the difficulty in extracting sufficient amounts of …

expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data

DC Zuanny, B Vilela, PW Moonlight… - Applications in Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Data on plant distribution and diversity from natural history collections and
taxonomic databases are increasingly becoming available online as exemplified by the …

[HTML][HTML] Floristics in Mexico today: insights into a better understanding of biodiversity in a megadiverse country

JL Villaseñor, JA Meave - Botanical Sciences, 2022 - scielo.org.mx
Advancing our current knowledge on floristic richness in Mexico requires access to different
sources, including published and unpublished inventories, fascicles of ongoing floristic …

plantR: An R package and workflow for managing species records from biological collections

RAF de Lima, A Sánchez‐Tapia… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species records from biological collections are becoming increasingly available online. This
unprecedented availability of records has largely supported recent studies in taxonomy …

Genomics of natural history collections for understanding evolution in the wild

L Lopez, KG Turner, ES Bellis… - Molecular Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing question in biology is how organisms change through time and space in
response to their environment. This knowledge is of particular relevance to predicting how …

New and Noteworthy Taxa of the Genus Dactylorhiza Necker ex Nevski (Orchidaceae Juss.) in Kazakhstan Flora and Its Response to Global Warming

AA Sumbembayev, S Nowak, A Burzacka-Hinz… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
A critical study of the herbarium material representing the orchid genus Dactylorhiza Necker
ex Nevski in Kazakhstan was conducted in 2019–2020. The information on the species …