Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age

JE Ball-Damerow, L Brenskelle, N Barve, PS Soltis… - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Our world is in the midst of unprecedented change—climate shifts and sustained,
widespread habitat degradation have led to dramatic declines in biodiversity rivaling …

Using insect natural history collections to study global change impacts: challenges and opportunities

HM Kharouba, JMM Lewthwaite… - … of the Royal …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, natural history collections (NHCs) have played an increasingly
prominent role in global change research, but they have still greater potential, especially for …

Human‐modified habitats imperil ornamented dragonflies less than their non‐ornamented counterparts at local, regional, and continental scales

MP Moore, NT Leith, KD Fowler‐Finn… - Ecology …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biologists have long wondered how sexual ornamentation influences a species' risk of
extinction. Because the evolution of condition‐dependent ornamentation can reduce …

Drivers of Odonata flight timing revealed by natural history collection data

T Woods, DJ McGarvey - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global change may cause widespread phenological shifts. But knowledge of the extent and
generality of these shifts is limited by the availability of phenological records with sufficiently …

Climate change aggravates non‐target effects of pesticides on dragonflies at macroecological scales

C Sirois‐Delisle, JT Kerr - Ecological Applications, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Critical gaps in understanding how species respond to environmental change limit our
capacity to address conservation risks in a timely way. Here, we examine the direct and …

Detecting long-term occupancy changes in Californian odonates from natural history and citizen science records

G Rapacciuolo, JE Ball-Damerow, AR Zeilinger… - Biodiversity and …, 2017‏ - Springer
In a world of rapid environmental change, effective biodiversity conservation and
management relies on our ability to detect changes in species occurrence. While long-term …

WiPFIM: A digital platform for interlinking biocollections of wild plants, fruits, associated insects, and their molecular barcodes

B Onyango, R Copeland, J Mbogholi… - Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The current knowledge on insects feeding on fruits is limited, and some of the scarce
existing data on the fruit‐associated insects are secluded within the host institutions …

Species diversity, hotspot congruence, and conservation of North American damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera)

Z Zhao, X Feng, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The rapid extinction of species is of considerable concern for biodiversity conservation.
Identifying the drivers of species diversity and hotspots is beneficial for develo** …

Museum and Citizen-Science Data Indicate Contraction in the Range of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum)

JW Haney, JA Veech, I Castro-Arellano… - …, 2022‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
Contraction in the geographic range of Texas Horned Lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) has
long been suspected but not definitively examined. Contraction of a species' geographic …

Range geographies, not functional traits, explain convergent range and phenology shifts under climate change

C Sirois-Delisle, SCC Gordon, JT Kerr - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
Climate change may introduce conditions beyond species' tolerances; to survive, species
must avoid these extremes. Phenological shifts are one strategy, as species move their …