The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

We are in the midst of a transformation in the way that biodiversity is observed on the planet.
The approach of direct human observation, combining efforts of both professional and …

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Spatial patterns of biodiversity are inextricably linked to their collection methods, yet no
synthesis of bias patterns or their consequences exists. As such, views of organismal …

Biological recording is in essence a very simple concept in which a record is the report of a
species at a physical location at a certain time. The collation of these records into a dataset …

Primary biodiversity data constitute observations of particular species at given points in time
and space. Open‐access electronic databases provide unprecedented access to these data …

Recently, a debate has developed over how biodiversity is changing across the planet.
While most researchers agree species extinctions are increasing globally due to human …

The Earth's biota is changing over time in complex ways. A critical challenge is to test
whether specific biomes, taxa or types of species benefit or suffer in a time of accelerating …

A fortunate fact of human history is that we have been amassing an abundance of
information on the biodiversity of our planet—as institutional collections of specimens—for …

Over the last few decades, resources for descriptive taxonomy and biodiversity inventories
have substantially declined, and they are also globally unequally distributed. This could …