The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Widespread specimen digitization has greatly enhanced the use of herbarium data in
scientific research. Publications using herbarium data have increased exponentially over the …

The accessibility of global biodiversity information has surged in the past two decades,
notably through widespread funding initiatives for museum specimen digitization and …

Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing
anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of …

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 …

For more than two centuries, biodiversity collections have served as the foundation for
scientific investigation of and education about life on Earth (Melber and Abraham 2002 …

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 shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

With more than 300 species, the Magnoliaceae family represents a major Magnoliid lineage
that is disjunctly distributed in Asia and the New World. The classification of Magnolia sl has …

Millions of scientific specimens are housed in museum collections, a large part of which are
fluid preserved. The use of formaldehyde as fixative and subsequent storage in ethanol is …