Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria

CC Davis, E Sessa, A Paton, A Antonelli… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The use of herbaria for science and conservation is enabling greatly enhanced scopes and
scales of discovery, exploration and protection of biodiversity. The availability of digital, open …

Ethical issues in lethal insect monitoring

M Barrett, B Fischer - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Animal monitoring involves acquiring information about animals or their activities. Changes
in available monitoring technologies, global biodiversity, and sociocultural norms have …

PicoCam: High‐resolution 3D imaging of live animals and preserved specimens

J Medina, D Irschick, K Epperly… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The PicoCam system is a multi‐camera photogrammetry rig used for generating high‐
resolution 3D models of animals in the field, or preserved specimens in laboratory or …

Bee monitoring by community scientists: comparing a collections-based program with iNaturalist

NE Turley, SE Kania, IR Petitta… - Annals of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Bee monitoring, or widespread efforts to document bee community biodiversity, can involve
data collection using lethal (specimen collections) or non-lethal methods (observations …

Response to “Specimen collection is essential for modern science”

AQ Byrne - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Natural history museums are vital repositories of specimens, samples and data that inform
about the natural world; this Reply responds to a Formal Comment that queried whether it …

[PDF][PDF] New vouchered and taxonomically verified records of cave-dwelling populations of catfishes of the genus Rhamdia (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae) from Costa …

J Arroyave, A Angulo, SG Hernández-Ávila… - Subterranean …, 2024 - subtbiol.pensoft.net
Dedicated ichthyological surveys in two karstic caves in Costa Rica resulted in the discovery
of hypogean populations from three epigean species of catfishes of the genus Rhamdia. The …

Disproportion between the Peruvian Amazonian megadiverse mammalian fauna and the available molecular information

V Pacheco, J Martínez-Altamirano, JL Mena… - Zoologia …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Peru holds a high mammalian diversity in its Amazonian region, with 326 species. However,
our knowledge about the actual diversity is still considered incomplete, and the molecular …

Endurance athletes hiding in plain sight in the high Andes

CD Cadena - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Work on the natural history of organisms living at high elevations does not cease to
challenge our understanding of the limits and diversity of life. For example, long-held views …

Las colecciones biológicas de Chile deben potenciarse

G D'ELÍA - Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, 2024 - SciELO Chile
En esta revisión abogo por la necesidad de mejorar la infraestructura de las colecciones
biológicas de Chile y por el crecimiento continuo de su acervo. Para fundamentar este …

Whole snake genomes from eighteen families of snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia) and their applications to systematics

JR Roberts, JM Bernstein, CC Austin, T Hains… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present genome assemblies for 18 snake species representing 18 families (Serpentes:
Caenophidia): Acrochordus granulatus, Aparallactus werneri, Boaedon fuliginosus …