Integration of the world’s natural history collections can provide a resource for decision-makers
Science, 2023 Over the past three centuries, people have collected objects and specimens and placed them in natural history museums throughout the world. Taken as a whole, this global collection is the physical basis for our understanding of the natural world and our ...
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Digitization and the future of natural history collections [PDF]
BioScience, 2019 Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of specimens via digitization–the conversion of specimen data into accessible digital content–has greatly expanded the use of NHC collections across a diversity of disciplines.
Brandon P Hedrick +11 more
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Surprising discovery of an enigmatic geometrid in Croatia: Mirlatia arcuata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 A new monotypic genus of Geometridae, Mirlatia gen. nov., and a new species, M. arcuata sp. nov., are described from Croatia. Based on external and genitalia characters, the new genus is tentatively placed in the subfamily Larentiinae.
Axel Hausmann +3 more
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The taxonomic quagmire of northern Australian snake-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae): Chelodina kuchlingi—Extinct or hiding in plain sight? [PDF]
Vertebrate ZoologyUsing mitochondrial genomes and nine nuclear loci, we examined genetic variation in snake-necked turtles (Chelodina sensu lato), with a focus on northern Australian taxa.
Christian Kehlmaier +2 more
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Revision of the genus Attaphila (Blattodea: Blaberoidea), myrmecophiles living in the mushroom gardens of leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2021 The genus Attaphila, comprising minute myrmecophilous cockroaches, is revised, including now six previously known (A. aptera, A. bergi, A. flava, A. fungicola, A. schuppi, A. sexdentis) and three new species (A. multisetosa sp. nov.
Horst Bohn +3 more
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Research Infrastructure Contact Zones: a framework and dataset to characterise the activities of major biodiversity informatics initiatives [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The landscape of biodiversity data infrastructures and organisations is complex and fragmented. Many occupy specialised niches representing narrow segments of the multidimensional biodiversity informatics space, while others operate across a broad front,
Vincent Smith +16 more
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ZooKeys, 2018 The braconid wasp parasitoid Cotesia nuellorum Whitfield, new species, is described from specimens reared from a caterpillar of the hickory horned devil, Citheronia regalis (F.), and from a caterpillar of the luna moth, Actias luna (L.), in eastern Texas.
James B. Whitfield +2 more
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Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The number of insect species and insect abundances decreased severely during the past decades over major parts of Central Europe. Previous studies documented declines of species richness, abundances, shifts in species composition, and decreasing biomass ...
Axel Hausmann +9 more
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Semantic Annotation of Natural History Collections
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Large collections of historical biodiversity expeditions are housed in natural history museums throughout the world. Potentially they can serve as rich sources of data for cultural historical and biodiversity research. However, they exist as only partially catalogued specimen repositories and images of unstructured, non-standardised, hand-written text ...
Stork, L. +6 more
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