Digital extended specimens: Enabling an extensible network of biodiversity data records as integrated digital objects on the internet

AR Hardisty, ER Ellwood, G Nelson, B Zimkus… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and
accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an …

Phenology in freshwaters: a review and recommendations for future research

T Woods, A Kaz, X Giam - Ecography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phenology changes are increasingly recognized as a common response of species to
ongoing global change. Phenology can be influenced by environmental cues that impact the …

Deep learning and computer vision will transform entomology

TT Høye, J Ärje, K Bjerge, OLP Hansen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Most animal species on Earth are insects, and recent reports suggest that their abundance is
in drastic decline. Although these reports come from a wide range of insect taxa and regions …

Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene

EK Meineke, TJ Davies, BH Daru… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how
anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is limited by a lack of …

Herbaria as big data sources of plant traits

JM Heberling - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Herbarium specimens have long been a cornerstone of taxonomic research but are only
recently being recognized for their potential as a source of spatially and temporally …

The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

FT Bakker, A Antonelli, JA Clarke, JA Cook… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational
innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich …

The complexity of global change and its effects on insects

LH Yang, EG Postema, TE Hayes, MK Lippey… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Global change includes multiple overlap** and interacting drivers.•These
drivers can have complex and counterintuitive effects on insects.•Global change reorganizes …

Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology

PS Soltis, G Nelson, A Zare… - Applications in Plant …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The application of machine learning methods to extract data from herbarium specimens has
grown and diversified in a few short years, beginning with species identification in a specific …

LeafMachine: Using machine learning to automate leaf trait extraction from digitized herbarium specimens

WN Weaver, J Ng, RG Laport - Applications in Plant Sciences, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Obtaining phenotypic data from herbarium specimens can provide important
insights into plant evolution and ecology but requires significant manual effort and time …

Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research

KM Winchell, KJ Aviles‐Rodriguez… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although the field of urban evolutionary ecology has recently expanded, much progress has
been made in identifying adaptations that arise as a result of selective pressures within …