Machine learning for image based species identification

J Wäldchen, P Mäder - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate species identification is the basis for all aspects of taxonomic research and is an
essential component of workflows in biological research. Biologists are asking for more …

[HTML][HTML] Automated plant species identification—Trends and future directions

J Wäldchen, M Rzanny, M Seeland… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Current rates of species loss triggered numerous attempts to protect and conserve
biodiversity. Species conservation, however, requires species identification skills, a …

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large‐scale digitization

BH Daru, DS Park, RB Primack, CG Willis… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nonrandom collecting practices may bias conclusions drawn from analyses of herbarium
records. Recent efforts to fully digitize and mobilize regional floras online offer a timely …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

WD Kissling, R Walls, A Bowser, MO Jones… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

Using herbaria to study global environmental change

PLM Lang, FM Willems, JF Scheepens… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
During the last centuries, humans have transformed global ecosystems. With their temporal
dimension, herbaria provide the otherwise scarce long‐term data crucial for tracking …

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 unrealized potential of herbaria for global change biology

EK Meineke, CC Davis, TJ Davies - Ecological Monographs, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant and fungal specimens in herbaria are becoming primary resources for investigating
how plant phenology and geographic distributions shift with climate change, greatly …

Digitization of herbaria enables novel research

PS Soltis - American journal of botany, 2017 - JSTOR
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: ESSAYS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY funded by
NSF. As of this writing, iDigBio currently serves over 105 million specimen records from US …