Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Microbiome data, metadata and analytical workflows have become 'big'in terms of volume
and complexity. Although the infrastructure and technologies to share data have been …

As big data, open data, and open science advance to increase access to complex and large
datasets for innovation, discovery, and decision-making, Indigenous Peoples' rights to …

Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over
the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a …

Indigenous Peoples are increasingly being sought out for research partnerships that
incorporate Indigenous Knowledges into ecology research. In such research partnerships, it …

Community monitoring can track environmental phenomena, resource use, and natural
resource management processes of concern to community members. It can also contribute …

The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible
genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of …

Research in both ecology and AI strives for predictive understanding of complex systems,
where nonlinearities arise from multidimensional interactions and feedbacks across multiple …

The recent emergence and adoption of Machine Learning technology, and specifically of
Large Language Models, has drawn attention to the need for systematic and transparent …

Over the past three centuries, people have collected objects and specimens and placed
them in natural history museums throughout the world. Taken as a whole, this global …