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The emergent interactions that govern biodiversity change. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Clark JS, Scher CL, Swift M.
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refloraR: An R package for efficiently retrieving and analyzing plant specimen data from the Herbário Virtual Reflora

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Advances in the digitization of herbarium collections are enabling open access to specimen data for research and conservation. In Brazil, the Herbário Virtual Reflora (HVR) hosts over 4.8 million high‐resolution images of botanical specimens and their associated data from 86 national and international herbaria.
Carlos Calderón del Cid, Ana Flávia Alves Versiane, Paula Leitman, Fabiana Ranzato Filardi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Domingos Cardoso   +5 more
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Managing Biodiversity Stressors to Enhance Climate Resilience [PDF]

Until the Paris Agreements in 2015, climate change instruments, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1997 (Kyoto Protocol) focussed ...
Riley, S
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Herbarium‐based measurements are reliable predictors of fresh plant traits in Neotropical Myrtaceae

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Herbarium specimens are increasingly used to extract morphological traits for ecological and evolutionary studies, yet the effects of tissue desiccation on trait measurements remain poorly understood. Here, we tested two hypotheses: (H1) whether higher tissue water content leads to greater measurement changes after herborization and ...
Yacov Kilsztajn, Lázaro Henrique Soares Moraes de Conceição, Thais Vasconcelos, Carolyn Elinore Barnes Proença, Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier   +4 more
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Stochastic Dominance, Entropy and Biodiversity Management [PDF]

In this paper we develop a model of population dynamics using the Shannon entropy index, a measure of diversity that allows for global and specific population shocks.
John C. Whitehead, Paul E. Chambers, John R. Crooker, Catherine M. Chambers   +3 more
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Mining buried plant trait data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Comparison and integration with multiple plant trait databases

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Despite the availability of several plant trait databases, significant traits remain undocumented for a substantial number of species. To address this issue, the current study explored digital text from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as an innovative source of plant trait information and evaluated its capacity to ...
Takuro Katori, Michio Oguro
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Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large‐scale phenology labeling for herbarium specimens

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Herbarium specimens represent critical historical records of plant phenology, yet automating annotation of reproductive structures remains challenging given the diversity of floral morphologies, specimen age and quality, and image quality.
Erin L. Grady, Raphael LaFrance, Daijiang Li, Russell Dinnage, Ellen G. Denny, John Deck, Robert P. Guralnick   +6 more
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Are there morpho‐acoustic patterns of adaptation in nonhuman primate ears? Testing the role of ecology and habitat in shaping ear morphology and function

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Analysis of the variation in the bony structures of the inner and middle ear provides critical insights into functional morphology, as well as adaptive morphology across primates. In this study, we investigated whether ear morphology patterns are related to the ecological characteristics of species and their habitats to test two acoustic ...
Myriam Marsot, Rémi Laffont, Émilie Steimetz, Patricia Balaresque, Sébastien Couette   +4 more
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New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Neandertals are known to possess very distinctive traits in their bony labyrinth morphology, such as an inferiorly positioned posterior canal and a very low number of turns in the cochlea. Hence, the inner ear has been often used to assess the Neandertal status of fragmentary fossils.
Alessandro Urciuoli, Julia Diez‐Valero, Ignacio Martínez, Rolf Quam, Brian A. Keeling, Nicole M. Webb, Mercedes Conde‐Valverde   +6 more
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Broad-scale evaluations of biodiversity change need reference comparisons. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Sinclair JS, Cortés-Guzmán D, Aroviita J, Baker NJ, Barešová L, Bradley C, Cañedo-Argüelles M, Cunillera-Montcusí D, Feeley HB, Ferréol M, Floury M, Forio MAE, Goethals P, González-Ferreras AM, Huttunen KL, Karaouzas I, Larrañaga A, Moe SJ, Moulinec A, Osadčaja D, Pařil P, Peredo Arce A, Polášek M, Straka M, Vannevel R, Wilkes M, Haase P.   +26 more
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