Accurate species identification is the basis for all aspects of taxonomic research and is an
essential component of workflows in biological research. Biologists are asking for more …

Current rates of species loss triggered numerous attempts to protect and conserve
biodiversity. Species conservation, however, requires species identification skills, a …

Nonrandom collecting practices may bias conclusions drawn from analyses of herbarium
records. Recent efforts to fully digitize and mobilize regional floras online offer a timely …

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of
digital biodiversity data. This has thrust natural history museums into the forefront of …

Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

During the last centuries, humans have transformed global ecosystems. With their temporal
dimension, herbaria provide the otherwise scarce long‐term data crucial for tracking …

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 …

Plant and fungal specimens in herbaria are becoming primary resources for investigating
how plant phenology and geographic distributions shift with climate change, greatly …

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

ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: ESSAYS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY funded by
NSF. As of this writing, iDigBio currently serves over 105 million specimen records from US …