The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a rapid rise in the mobilization of
digital biodiversity data. This has thrust natural history museums into the forefront of …

Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

For more than two centuries, biodiversity collections have served as the foundation for
scientific investigation of and education about life on Earth (Melber and Abraham 2002 …

Herbarium specimens have long been a cornerstone of taxonomic research but are only
recently being recognized for their potential as a source of spatially and temporally …

Widespread specimen digitization has greatly enhanced the use of herbarium data in
scientific research. Publications using herbarium data have increased exponentially over the …

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 …

The early twenty-first century has witnessed massive expansions in availability and
accessibility of digital data in virtually all domains of the biodiversity sciences. Led by an …

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic reveals a
major gap in global biosecurity infrastructure: a lack of publicly available biological samples …

Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum
specimens are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies …

The photographic record is increasingly becoming an important biodiversity resource for
primary research and conservation monitoring. However, globally, there are important gaps …