All aspects of biodiversity research, from taxonomy to conservation, rely on data associated
with species names. Effective integration of names across multiple fields is paramount and …

Biological invasions are a global challenge that has received insufficient attention. Recently
available cost syntheses have provided policy-and decision makers with reliable and up-to …

More than 15% of all vascular plant species may remain scientifically undescribed, and
many of the> 350 000 described species have no or few geographic records documenting …

The data collected by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), some 2.2 billion
records, is arguably the largest international initiative to digitize and share primary …

Forests account for nearly 90% of the world's terrestrial biomass in the form of carbon and
they support 80% of the global biodiversity. To understand the underlying forest dynamics …

Abstract The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is the largest databank on
primary biodiversity data. We examined the completeness and geographical biases for all …

Herbarium collections shape our understanding of Earth's flora and are crucial for
addressing global change issues. Their formation, however, is not free from sociopolitical …

Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, hel**
researchers understand the function of an organism's morphology, physiology, growth and …

Software development in ecology and evolution, and perhaps across other fields as well, is
at an important junction. Open software underpins most research today, increasing …

There is an urgent need for high-quality biodiversity data in the context of rapid
environmental change. Nowhere is this need more urgent than in the deep ocean, with the …