In taxonomy, precision of species collection data is a cornerstone for advancing research
and its diverse applications. Despite the widespread recognition of the significance of these …

Habitat change and fragmentation are the primary causes of biodiversity loss worldwide.
Recent decades have seen a surge of funding, published papers and citations in the field as …

Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly
known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions …

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time, 1, 2 and attempts to address it
require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental …

Much of biodiversity remains undiscovered, causing species and their functions to remain
unrealized and potentially lost in ignorance. Here we use extensive species-level data in a …

More than two million species have been described so far, but our knowledge on most taxa
remains scarce or inexistent, and the available biodiversity data is often taxonomically …

Species distributions in terrestrial ecosystems are three‐dimensional, spanning both the
horizontal landscape and the vertical space provided by the physical environment. Classical …

Tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals) are model systems for global
biodiversity science, but continuing data gaps, limited data standardisation, and ongoing flux …

Most described species have not been explicitly included in phylogenetic trees—a problem
named the Darwinian shortfall—owing to a lack of molecular and/or morphological data …

Despite the amount of data on different aspects of biodiversity, such as species distributions,
taxonomy, or phylogenetics, there are still significant gaps and biases in the available …