From dormant collections to repositories for the study of habitat changes: The importance of herbaria in modern life sciences

M Mandrioli - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the advent of new technologies for massive and automatized digitization,
together with the availability of new methods for DNA sequencing, strongly increased the …

Target capture and genome skimming for plant diversity studies

FF Pezzini, G Ferrari, LL Forrest, ML Hart… - Applications in Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent technological advances in long‐read high‐throughput sequencing and assembly
methods have facilitated the generation of annotated chromosome‐scale whole‐genome …

Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru

J Delves, J Albán‐Castillo, A Cano… - Plants, People …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Herbaria can be considered plant libraries, each holding
collections of dried specimens documenting plant diversity in space and time. For many …

GBIF information is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes

ML De Araujo, AC Quaresma, FN Ramos - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Distribution data sharing in global databases (eg GBIF) allowed the knowledge synthesis in
several biodiversity areas. However, their Wallacean shortfalls still reduce our capacity to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] How to fill the biodiversity data gap: Is it better to invest in fieldwork or curation?

CA Vargas, M Bottin, T Sarkinen, JE Richardson… - Plant Diversity, 2024 - Elsevier
Data gaps and biases are two important issues that affect the quality of biodiversity
information and downstream results. Understanding how best to fill existing gaps and …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of natural history collections data reveals patterns of US freshwater mussel diversity and decline

J Pfeiffer, TP Dubose, SM Keogh - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural history collections are uniquely positioned to chronicle biodiversity change and are
a fundamental data source in taxon-based research and conservation. With 85 species …

Parasitic flowering plant collections embody the extended specimen

L Teixeira‐Costa, JM Heberling… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread digitization of natural history collections, combined with novel tools and
approaches is revolutionizing biodiversity science. The 'extended specimen'concept …

A method for making Red List assessments with herbarium data and distribution models for species‐rich plant taxa: Lessons from the Neotropical genus Guatteria …

N Verspagen, RHJ Erkens - Plants, People, Planet, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Despite its importance, biodiversity is declining rapidly. To
adequately prioritise conservation efforts, we need to know how threatened species actually …

A 150-year-old herbarium and floristic data testify regional species decline

M Büttner, U Weibel, M Jutzi, A Bergamini… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Old herbarium specimens and historical floristic data give insight into regional floras for
given time periods. They often cover historical time periods for which few other data are …