A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history collections: spatiotemporal resolutions have little effect on model performance

GM Jönsson, GR Broad, S Sumner… - Insect Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current dearth of long‐term insect population trends is a major obstacle to conservation.
Occupancy models have been proposed as a solution, but it remains unclear whether they …

Signatures of increasing environmental stress in bumblebee wings over the past century: Insights from museum specimens

AN Arce, A Cantwell‐Jones, M Tansley… - Journal of animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Determining when animal populations have experienced stress in the past is fundamental to
understanding how risk factors drive contemporary and future species' responses to …

Research publications of Australia's natural history museums, 1981–2020: Enduring relevance in a changing world

TA Green, PA Hutchings, FR Scarff, JR Tweedley… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
As a case study of the responses of natural history museums to changing scientific and
funding environments, we analysed research publications of Australia's Natural History …

ALICE: Angled Label Image Capture and Extraction for high throughput insect specimen digitisation

BW Price, S Dupont, EL Allan, V Blagoderov… - 2018 - osf.io
The world's natural history collections contain at least 2 billion specimens, representing a
unique data source for answering fundamental scientific questions about ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Georeferencing the Natural History Museum's Chinese type collection: of plateaus, pagodas and plants

K Lohonya, L Livermore, MG Penn - Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The digitising efforts of herbaria aim to increase access to and impact of scientific
collections, by making the data digitally accessible to the global community. Digitising the …

Data mobilisation at the Fund of Invertebrates of the State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine

A Novikov, V Rizun, A Susulovsky… - Biodiversity Data …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The described dataset contains occurrence records of invertebrate specimens
deposited at the State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine …

[PDF][PDF] ALICE Software: Machine learning & computer vision for automatic label extraction

A Salili-James, B Scott, V Smith - Biodiversity Information Science …, 2022 - biss.pensoft.net
Insects make up over 70% of the world's known species (Resh and Carde 2009). This is well
represented in collections across the world, with the Natural History Museum's pinned insect …

[PDF][PDF] ALICE, MALICE and VILE: High throughput insect specimen digitisation using angled imaging techniques

S Dupont, B Price - Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019 - biss.pensoft.net
The world's natural history collections contain at least 2 billion specimens (Ariño 2010),
representing a unique data source for answering fundamental scientific questions about …

[PDF][PDF] Type material of Asilidae (Diptera) described by Jason Londt in the Natural History Museum, London

E McAlister, P Wing - African Invertebrates, 2023 - africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net
The primary and secondary types as well as some non-type material donated by Jason
Londt (and various collaborators) to the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) have …

[PDF][PDF] High-Throughput Digitisation of Natural History Specimens

EL Allan, S Dupont, H Hardy, L Livermore… - Biodiversity …, 2019 - biss.pensoft.net
Abstract The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) has embarked on an ambitious Digital
Collections Programme to digitise its collections. One aim of the programme has been to …