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The next generation of natural history collections [PDF]

PLOS Biology, 2018
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology.
David E. Schindel, Joseph A. Cook
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Quantifying the use of natural history collections [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
Measuring the use of natural history collections is essential to understand their past and present impact on science, to underpin decisions about their management and to assist with deploying them optimally to address societal challenges. Using the vast natural history collections of Naturalis Biodiversity Center as an example, this paper assesses the ...
Max Caspers, Luc Willemse, Niels Raes, Erik Smets, Peter Schalk, Olaf Bánki, Gideon Gijswijt   +6 more
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A strategy to digitise natural history collections with limited resources [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2020
The present work is a contribution towards accelerating the digitisation process of natural history collections, usually a slow process. A two-stage process was developed at the herbarium of the University of Coimbra: (i) a new workflow was established to automatically create records in the herbarium master database with minimum information, while ...
Joaquim Santos, Paulo Rupino da Cunha, Fátima Sales   +2 more
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Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2019
Natural history specimens are widely used across ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation. Although biological sex may influence all of these areas, it is often overlooked in large-scale studies using museum specimens.
Altringham JD, Camilo-Alves CdSeP, Karlin S, Machin R, Reyes-Amaya N, Stevens L, Wilson DE   +6 more
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Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes [PDF]

Molecular Ecology, 2016
AbstractNatural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in biogeography, systematics and conservation. However, they also hold the potential for studying evolution directly.
Jeremy Chase Crawford, Elizabeth A. Wommack, Elizabeth A. Wommack, Talisin T. Hammond, Rachel E. Walsh, Katya L. Mack, Michael W. Nachman, Luke M. Bloch, Katie LaBarbera, Michael Holmes, Michael Holmes, Felipe de Mello Martins, Guinevere O. U. Wogan   +12 more
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A revised multilocus phylogeny of Old World sparrows (Aves: Passeridae) [PDF]

Vertebrate Zoology, 2021
The Old World sparrows include some of the best-studied passerine species, such as the cosmopolitan human commensal, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) as well as poorly studied narrow-range endemics like the Iago sparrow (P.
Martin Päckert, Jens Hering, Abdelkrim Ait Belkacem, Yue-Hua Sun, Sabine Hille, Davaa Lkhagvasuren, Safiqul Islam, Jochen Martens   +7 more
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TOWARDS DEMAND DRIVEN PUBLISHING: APPROCHES TO THE PRIORITISATION OF DIGITISATION OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS DATA [PDF]

, 2010
Natural history collections represent a vast repository of biodiversity data of international significance. There is an imperative to capture the data through digitisation projects in order to expose the data to new and established users of biodiversity ...
BERENTS, PENNY, Chavan, Vishwas, HAMER, MICHELLE   +2 more
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The Value of Digitising Natural History Collections [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2021
The Natural History Museum, London has been creating digital data about collections for many years, with a formal Digital Collections Programme since 2014. Efforts to monitor the outcomes and impact of this work have focused on metrics of digital access, such as download events, and on citations of digital specimens as a measure of use.
Danail Popov, Priyanka Roychoudhury, Helen Hardy, Laurence Livermore, Ken Norris   +4 more
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The Phylogenetics and Biogeography of the Central Asian Hawkmoths, Hyles hippophaes and H. chamyla: Can Mitogenomics and Machine Learning Bring Clarity?

Diversity, 2021
The western Palaearctic species of the hawkmoth genus Hyles (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) have long been the subject of molecular phylogenetic research. However, much less attention has been paid to the taxa inhabiting the central and eastern Palaearctic ...
Franziska Patzold, Eduardo Marabuto, Hana Daneck, Mark A. O’Neill, Ian J. Kitching, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer   +5 more
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Asymmetric allelic introgression across a hybrid zone of the coal tit (Periparus ater) in the central Himalayas*

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In the Himalayas, a number of secondary contact zones have been described for vicariant vertebrate taxa. However, analyses of genetic divergence and admixture are missing for most of these examples. In this study, we provide a population genetic analysis
Hannes Wolfgramm, Jochen Martens, Till Töpfer, Melita Vamberger, Abhinaya Pathak, Heiko Stuckas, Martin Päckert   +6 more
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