Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

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 …

Species distribution modeling is a valuable tool with many applications across ecology and
evolutionary biology. The selection of biologically meaningful environmental variables that …

Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Biodiversity data derive from myriad sources stored in various formats on many distinct
hardware and software platforms. An essential step towards understanding global patterns …

Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals,
academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time …

The geographic distribution of coyotes (Canis latrans) has dramatically expanded since
1900, spreading across much of North America in a period when most other mammal …

Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These
repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in …

Today we can generate hundreds of gigabases of DNA and RNA sequencing data in a week
for less than US $5,000. The astonishing rate of data generation by these low-cost, high …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …