Documenting Natural History Collections in GBIF [PDF]
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019 The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) was established by governments in 2001, largely through the initiative and leadership of the natural history collections community, following the 1999 recommendation by a working group under the Megascience Forum (predecessor of the Global Science Forum) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation ...
Robertson, Tim +3 more
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Thiotricha sumpichi sp. nov. – a new species of Thiotrichinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from south-eastern Europe [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Thiotricha sumpichi sp. nov. is described from Greece and Croatia. The systematic position of the new species within Thiotricha is discussed based on external and genitalia characters and from DNA barcodes of the mitochondrial COI gene (cytochrome c ...
Oleksiy V. Bidzilya +2 more
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Journal of Ecology, 2022 Bioregionalisation partitions diversity so that similarity of the selected biological and ecological variables is higher within regions than it is outside those regions.
Timothy Harris +3 more
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Codes for Natural History Collections in Ichthyology and Herpetology
Copeia, 2020 Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
M. Sabaj
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bioRxiv, 2022 Natural history collections are uniquely positioned to chronicle biodiversity changes across time and space and are a fundamental data source in taxon-based research and conservation.
John M. Pfeiffer +2 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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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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Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of the Atrato slider, Trachemys medemi (Testudines, Emydidae) [PDF]
ZooKeysThe mitochondrial genome of three Trachemys medemi was sequenced and annotated for the first time. The mitochondrial genome is a circular DNA molecule of 16,711–16,810 bp in size, with 60.9% AT content. It includes 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes,
Sebastián Cuadrado-Ríos +3 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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POINTREC: A Test Collection for Narrative-driven Point of Interest Recommendation [PDF]
, 2021 This paper presents a test collection for contextual point of interest (POI) recommendation in a narrative-driven scenario. There, user history is not available, instead, user requests are described in natural language. The requests in our collection are manually collected from social sharing websites, and are annotated with various types of metadata ...
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