The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research

G Nelson, S Ellis - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

The extended specimen network: A strategy to enhance US biodiversity collections, promote research and education

J Lendemer, B Thiers, AK Monfils, J Zaspel… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
For more than two centuries, biodiversity collections have served as the foundation for
scientific investigation of and education about life on Earth (Melber and Abraham 2002 …

Herbaria as big data sources of plant traits

JM Heberling - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

The changing uses of herbarium data in an era of global change: an overview using automated content analysis

JM Heberling, LA Prather, SJ Tonsor - BioScience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Widespread specimen digitization has greatly enhanced the use of herbarium data in
scientific research. Publications using herbarium data have increased exponentially over the …

The next generation of natural history collections

DE Schindel, JA Cook - PLoS Biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens
are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced …

Digital extended specimens: Enabling an extensible network of biodiversity data records as integrated digital objects on the internet

AR Hardisty, ER Ellwood, G Nelson, B Zimkus… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and
accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an …

Leveraging natural history biorepositories as a global, decentralized, pathogen surveillance network

JP Colella, J Bates, SF Burneo, MA Camacho… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

Sequence capture phylogenomics of historical ethanol‐preserved museum specimens: Unlocking the rest of the vault

S Derkarabetian, LR Benavides… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum
specimens are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies …

Photographs as an essential biodiversity resource: drivers of gaps in the vascular plant photographic record

T Mesaglio, H Sauquet, D Coleman, E Wenk… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The photographic record is increasingly becoming an important biodiversity resource for
primary research and conservation monitoring. However, globally, there are important gaps …