Herbarium data: Global biodiversity and societal botanical needs for novel research

Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

(2017) Barnabas H. Daru et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

The time has come for Natural History Collections to claim co-authorship of research articles

(2017) Germinal Rouhan et al.   TAXON

Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist

(2017) Scott A. Morrison et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Old Plants, New Tricks: Phenological Research Using Herbarium Specimens

(2017) Charles G. Willis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Taxonomic perils and pitfalls of dataset assembly in ecology: a case study of the naturalized Asteraceae in Australia

(2017) Brad R. Murray et al.   NeoBiota

A conceptual framework for quality assessment and management of biodiversity data

(2017) Allan Koch Veiga et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

(2017) Julien Troudet et al.   Scientific Reports

Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

(2016) Kris Verheyen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Areas of endemism in the Nearctic: a case study of 1339 species of Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera) and their plant hosts

(2016) Christiane Weirauch et al.   CLADISTICS

Apache Spark

(2016) Matei Zaharia et al.   COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

A network approach for inferring species associations from co-occurrence data

(2016) Naia Morueta-Holme et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biogeo: an R package for assessing and improving data quality of occurrence record datasets

(2016) Mark P. Robertson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Quantifying the value of user-level data cleaning for big data: A case study using mammal distribution models

(2016) Tomer Gueta et al.   Ecological Informatics

Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes

(2016) Michael W. Holmes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Controlled comparison of species- and community-level models across novel climates and communities

(2016) Kaitlin C. Maguire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The ecologist's field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity

(2016) Simon Creer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

(2016) Mark D. Wilkinson et al.   Scientific Data

Species Distribution Modeling in the Tropics: Problems, Potentialities, and the Role of Biological Data for Effective Species Conservation

(2016) L. Cayuela et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Herbarium records are reliable sources of phenological change driven by climate and provide novel insights into species' phenological cueing mechanisms

(2015) Charles C. Davis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Emerging technologies for biological recording

(2015) Tom August et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Reveals Biggest Data on Biodiversity

(2015) Lawrence M. Page et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An Essential Biodiversity Variables perspective

(2015) Ilse R. Geijzendorffer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Quasi-static Eocene–Oligocene climate in Patagonia promotes slow faunal evolution and mid-Cenozoic global cooling

(2015) Matthew J. Kohn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change

(2015) Wallace M. Meyer et al.   PLoS One

More from ecologists to support natural history museums

(2015) Darren F. Ward et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Inferring biotic interactions from proxies

(2015) Ignacio Morales-Castilla et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Importance of Biodiversity E-infrastructures for Megadiverse Countries

(2015) Dora A. L. Canhos et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse

(2015) Patricia A. Soranno et al.   GigaScience

Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants

(2015) Neil A. Brummitt et al.   PLoS One

Global biotic interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets

(2014) Jorrit H. Poelen et al.   Ecological Informatics

Are natural history collections coming to an end as time-series?

(2014) Janet L Gardner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to the Biological Collections Ontology and Related Ontologies

(2014) Ramona L. Walls et al.   PLoS One

The biodiversity data knowledge gap: Assessing information loss in the management of Biosphere Reserves

(2013) Andrea Pino-Del-Carpio et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Pest species distribution modelling: origins and lessons from history

(2013) Robert W. Sutherst   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions

(2013) Antoine Guisan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America

(2013) Caroline A.E. Strömberg et al.   Nature Communications

Why Vouchers Matter in Botanical Research

(2013) Theresa M. Culley   Applications in Plant Sciences

The Value of Hidden Scientific Resources: Preserved Animal Specimens from Private Collections and Small Museums

(2012) Mireia Casas-Marce et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard

(2012) John Wieczorek et al.   PLoS One

Orchid biogeography and factors associated with rarity in a biodiversity hotspot, the Southwest Australian Floristic Region

(2010) Ryan D. Phillips et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery

(2010) D. P. Bebber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Sufficient sampling for asymptotic minimum species richness estimators

(2009) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Can herbarium records be used to map alien species invasion and native species expansion over the past 100 years?

(2009) Priscilla H. C. Crawford et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The effect of climate change on crop wild relatives

(2008) Andy Jarvis et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT