With ongoing environmental degradation at local, regional, and global scales, people's
accepted thresholds for environmental conditions are continually being lowered. In the …

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

Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing
anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of …

Despite their high diversity and importance for humankind, invertebrates are often neglected
in biodiversity conservation policies. We identify seven impediments to their effective …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

A recently documented correlate of anthropogenic climate change involves reductions in
body size, the nature and scale of the pattern leading to suggestions of a third universal …

Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms in
situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducting fieldwork often requires complex …

Plant specimens stored in herbaria are being used as never before to document the impacts
of global change on humans and nature. However, published statistics on the use of …

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 …

During the worldwide shutdown in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many reports
emerged of urban wildlife sightings. While these images garnered public interest and …