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Lichen Herbarium of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the FEB RAS (SAK): preliminary results of the inventory [PDF]

Геосистемы переходных зон
The organization of the lichen herbarium in the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the FEB RAS was initiated in 2014 after a number of integrated expeditions in the Sakhalin Region.
Ezhkin, Alexander K., Kaganov, Vladimir V.   +1 more
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VALUING BOTANIC COLLECTIONS: A COMBINED TRAVEL-COST AND CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY IN AUSTRALIA [PDF]

The economic value of biological collections in three major botanic gardens in Australia was estimated using the Travel-Cost (TC) and Contingent Valuation (CV) methods.
Bennett, Jeffrey W., Mwebaze, Paul
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Sustaining Software for Biological Collections Computing [PDF]

Proceedings of TDWG, 2017
Specify is a biological collections data management platform for the digitization, curation, and dissemination of museum specimen information. The Specify Software Project and its predecessor, the MUSE Project, have been funded by the US National Science Foundation for 30 years.
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Biobanking for tropical health: leveraging collaborative initiatives in the Lusophone world

Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
Biological collections and biobanks are essential for scientific research and innovation, supporting various scientific fields such as health sciences, biotechnology, food and agriculture. They preserve and provide diverse organisms, biological materials
Ana Paula Arez, Aline Souto, Manuela da Silva, Carlos Roberto Sobrinho do Nascimento, Isabel Couto, Silvana Belo, Nelson Lima, Nelson Lima   +7 more
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Moth Species New to Michigan [PDF]

, 2017
This is a compilation of moth species previously unrecorded from Michigan. Moore\u27s (1955) publication has been critically examined necessitating some specific changes.
Newman, John H., Nielsen, Mogens C.
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Optimizing image capture for computer vision‐powered taxonomic identification and trait recognition of biodiversity specimens

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Biological collections house millions of specimens with digital images increasingly available through open‐access platforms. However, most imaging protocols were developed for human interpretation without considering automated analysis requirements.
Alyson East, Elizabeth G. Campolongo, Luke Meyers, S. M. Rayeed, Samuel Stevens, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Isadora E. Fluck, Jennifer C. Girón, Maximiliane Jousse, Scott Lowe, Kayla I. Perry, Isabelle Betancourt, Noah Charney, Evan Donoso, Nathan Fox, Kim J. Landsbergen, Ekaterina Nepovinnykh, Michelle Ramirez, Parkash Singh, Khum Thapa‐Magar, Matthew Thompson, Evan Waite, Tanya Berger‐Wolf, Hilmar Lapp, Paula Mabee, Charles Stewart, Graham Taylor, Sydne Record   +27 more
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Robotic collectives inspired by biological cells [PDF]

Nature, 2019
A robotic system has been demonstrated in which the random motion of individual components leads to deterministic behaviour, much as occurs in living systems. Environmental and medical applications could follow. Robotics based on many stochastically moving components.
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Bryophytes Collection of the University of Brasilia Herbarium, Brazil

Diversity
The UB Herbarium, located in the Department of Botany at the University of Brasilia (Brasilia, Brazil), was established in 1963. It is the third-largest herbarium in Brazil, housing approximately 277,000 samples.
Mel C. Camelo, Allan L. A. Faria, Daniela Cemin, Paulo E. A. S. Câmara, Micheline Carvalho-Silva   +4 more
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The disambiguation of people names in biological collections. [PDF]

Biodivers Data J, 2022
Groom Q, Bräuchler C, Cubey RWN, Dillen M, Huybrechts P, Kearney N, Klazenga N, Leachman S, Paul DL, Rogers H, Santos J, Shorthouse DP, Vaughan A, von Mering S, Haston EM.   +14 more
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DiSCmap : digitisation of special collections mapping, assessment, prioritisation. Final project report [PDF]

, 2009
Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why.
Birrell, Duncan, Dobreva, Milena, Dunsire, Gordon, Griffiths, Jillian, Hartley, Richard, Menzies, Kathleen   +5 more
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