Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Mass production of unvouchered records fails to represent global biodiversity patterns

BH Daru, J Rodriguez - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research

NS Cobb, LF Gall, JM Zaspel, NJ Dowdy, LM McCabe… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Over 300 million arthropod specimens are housed in North American natural history
collections. These collections represent a “vast hidden treasure trove” of biodiversity− 95 …

[BUCH][B] Biological collections: Ensuring critical research and education for the 21st century

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2021 - books.google.com
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure
and a fundamental resource for understanding the natural world. Biological collections …

Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions

R Kays, WJ McShea, M Wikelski - Diversity and Distributions, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Given the dramatic pace of change of our planet, we need rapid collection of environmental
data to document how species are co** and to evaluate the impact of our conservation …

Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites

KE Galbreath, EP Hoberg, JA Cook… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Museum specimens play an increasingly important role in predicting the outcomes and
revealing the consequences of anthropogenically driven disruption of the biosphere. As …

Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?

R Kays, M Lasky, ML Allen, RC Dowler… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
While museum voucher specimens continue to be the standard for species identifications,
biodiversity data are increasingly represented by photographic records from camera traps …

The emerging role of mammal collections in 21st century mammalogy

JA Cook, JE Light - Journal of Mammalogy, 2019 - academic.oup.com
At this point I wish to emphasize what I believe will ultimately prove to be the greatest value
of our museum. This value will not, however, be realized until the lapse of many years …

Regional collections are an essential component of biodiversity research infrastructure

AK Monfils, ER Krimmel, JM Bates, JE Bauer… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ANNA K. MONFILS, ERICA R. KRIMMEL, JOHN M. BATES, JENNIFER E. BAUER,
MICHAEL W. BELITZ, BLAKE C. CAHILL, ALYSSA M. CAYWOOD, NEIL S. COBB, JULIA B …

Global natural history infrastructure requires international solidarity, support, and investment in local capacity

B Boldgiv, A Lkhagva, S Edwards, NC Stenseth… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
Amid global challenges like climate change, extinctions, and disease epidemics, science
and society require nuanced, international solutions that are grounded in robust …