Measuring and tracking biodiversity from local to global scales is challenging due to its
multifaceted nature and the range of metrics used to describe spatial and temporal patterns …

Natural history collections (NHC) provide a wealth of information that can be used to
understand the impacts of global change on biodiversity. As such, there is growing interest …

Whether most species are rare or have some intermediate abundance is a long-standing
question in ecology. Here, we use more than one billion observations from the Global …

Wild bees form diverse communities that pollinate plants in both native and agricultural
ecosystems making them both ecologically and economically important. The growing …

Despite widespread recognition of the need for long‐term monitoring of pollinator
abundances and pollination service provision, such studies are exceedingly rare. In this …

Many disease ecologists and conservation biologists believe that the world is wormier than it
used to be—that is, that parasites are increasing in abundance through time. This argument …

Fossil abundance data can reveal ecological dynamics underpinning taxonomic declines.
Using fossil dental metrics, we reconstructed body mass and mass–abundance distributions …

If you have been lucky enough to visit a natural history museum and you are reading this, it
is highly likely that you found that visit inspirational. It is also highly likely that natural history …

Many of the most contentious questions that concern the ecology of helminths could be
resolved with data on helminth abundance over the past few decades or centuries, but …

Aim Species occurrence data are valuable information that enables one to estimate
geographical distributions, characterize niches and their evolution, and guide spatial …