Phenotypic divergence in an island bee population: Applying geometric morphometrics to discriminate population‐level variation in wing venation [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Phenotypic divergence is an important consequence of restricted gene flow in insular populations. This divergence can be challenging to detect when it occurs through subtle shifts in morphological traits, particularly in traits with complex geometries ...
Madeleine M. Ostwald +2 more
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Leveraging Community Science to Measure Bee Body Size From Museum Specimens [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCommunity or volunteer participation in research has the potential to significantly help mobilize the wealth of biodiversity and functional ecological data housed in natural history collections.
Madeleine M. Ostwald +7 more
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A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions [PDF]
Scientific DataBees are one of the most important pollinators in terrestrial ecosystems, supporting biodiversity and food production. However, global knowledge of their interactions with host plants remains limited.
Sajad Noori +11 more
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Leveraging local species data, a global database, and an occupancy model to explore bee-plant interactions. [PDF]
Ecol ApplAbstract Global declines in bee populations are threatening the ecosystem services they provide, including pollination. Many bee–plant interactions are understudied, producing an incomplete understanding of resulting ecosystem‐level vulnerabilities. The last decade has generated a wealth of opportunistic data originating from natural history collection
Lee MJ, DiRenzo GV, Diao C, Seltmann KC.
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Brain Aging Mediating Heart Imaging-Derived Phenotypes and Mental and Nervous System Disorders. [PDF]
Aging CellUsing heart and brain imaging from 33,573 UK Biobank participants, we establish a clear association between brain aging and cardiac structural changes. In addition, we uncover several potentially modifiable lifestyle and environmental factors that contribute to mental and nervous system disorders, mediated through alterations in cardiac structure and ...
Zhou Z +10 more
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A semantically enriched taxonomic revision of Gryonoides Dodd, 1920 (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), with a review of the hosts of Teleasinae [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2021 Teleasinae are commonly collected scelionids that are the only known egg parasitoids of carabid beetles and therefore play a crucial role in shaping carabid populations in natural and agricultural ecosystems.
István Mikó +8 more
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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Tens of millions of images from biological collections have become available online over the last two decades. In parallel, there has been a dramatic increase in the capabilities of image analysis technologies, especially those involving machine learning
Quentin Groom +35 more
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Liberating host–virus knowledge from biological dark data
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021 Summary: Connecting basic data about bats and other potential hosts of SARS-CoV-2 with their ecological context is crucial to the understanding of the emergence and spread of the virus.
Nathan S Upham, PhD +14 more
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Georeferencing for Research Use (GRU): An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2018 Georeferencing is the process of aligning a text description of a geographic location with a spatial location based on a geographic coordinate system. Training aids are commonly created around the georeferencing process to disseminate community standards
Katja Seltmann +23 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2021 As droughts become more frequent and more severe under anthropogenic climate change, water stress due to diminished subsurface supplies may threaten the health and function of semi-arid riparian woodlands, which are assumed to be largely groundwater ...
Christopher L Kibler +6 more
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