▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

Information from natural history collections (NHCs) about the diversity, taxonomy and
historical distributions of species worldwide is becoming increasingly available over the …

Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing
anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of …

Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how
anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is limited by a lack of …

Most methods for modeling species distributions from occurrence records require additional
data representing the range of environmental conditions in the modeled region. These data …

The availability of detailed environmental data, together with inexpensive and powerful
computers, has fueled a rapid increase in predictive modeling of species environmental …

Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These
repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in …

The fundamental properties of organisms—what they are, how and where they live, and the
biotic and abiotic interactions that link them to communities and ecosystems—are the …

Citizen science is fundamentally shifting the future of biodiversity research. But although
citizen science observations are contributing an increasingly large proportion of biodiversity …

Declines in many bumble bee species have been documented in Europe raising several
ecological and economic concerns. The nature and extent of bumble bee decline in North …