Emerging technologies to conserve biodiversity

SL Pimm, S Alibhai, R Bergl, A Dehgan, C Giri… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Technologies to identify individual animals, follow their movements, identify and locate
animal and plant species, and assess the status of their habitats remotely have become …

Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age

JE Ball-Damerow, L Brenskelle, N Barve, PS Soltis… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Our world is in the midst of unprecedented change—climate shifts and sustained,
widespread habitat degradation have led to dramatic declines in biodiversity rivaling …

Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness

EE Zattara, MA Aizen - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Wild and managed bees are key pollinators, ensuring or enhancing the reproduction of a
large fraction of the world's wild flowering plants and the yield of∼ 85% of all cultivated …

Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019 - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

Digitization and the future of natural history collections

BP Hedrick, JM Heberling, EK Meineke, KG Turner… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing
anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring

M Chandler, L See, K Copas, AMZ Bonde… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
To meet collective obligations towards biodiversity conservation and monitoring, it is
essential that the world's governments and non-governmental organisations as well as the …

[HTML][HTML] Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions

C Meyer, H Kreft, R Guralnick, W Jetz - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Gaps in digital accessible information (DAI) on species distributions hamper prospects of
safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services, and addressing central ecological and …

Spatial bias in the GBIF database and its effect on modeling species' geographic distributions

J Beck, M Böller, A Erhardt, W Schwanghart - Ecological Informatics, 2014 - Elsevier
Species distribution modeling, in combination with databases of specimen distribution
records, is advocated as a solution to the problem of distributional data limitation in …

The dynamic habitat indices (DHIs) from MODIS and global biodiversity

VC Radeloff, M Dubinin, NC Coops, AM Allen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Remotely sensed data can help to identify both suitable habitat for individual species, and
environmental conditions that foster species richness, which is important when predicting …

What we (don't) know about global plant diversity

WK Cornwell, WD Pearse, RL Dalrymple… - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The era of big biodiversity data has led to rapid, exciting advances in the theoretical and
applied biological, ecological and conservation sciences. While large genetic, geographic …