[HTML][HTML] The herbarium of the future

CC Davis - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Achieving zero extinction for land plants

RT Corlett - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

Spatial-temporal mapping of forest vegetation cover changes along highways in Brunei using deep learning techniques and Sentinel-2 images

K Kalinaki, OA Malik, DTC Lai, RS Sukri… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Infrastructure development is a leading driver of forest cover loss in the tropics, resulting in a
significant decrease in biodiversity. With recent advancements in digital image processing …

From leaves to labels: Building modular machine learning networks for rapid herbarium specimen analysis with LeafMachine2

WN Weaver, SA Smith - Applications in Plant Sciences, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Quantitative plant traits play a crucial role in biological research. However,
traditional methods for measuring plant morphology are time consuming and have limited …

Botanical Collection Patterns and Conservation Categories of the Most Traded Timber Species from the Ecuadorian Amazon: The Role of Protected Areas

R López-Tobar, RJ Herrera-Feijoo, RG Mateo… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Ecuadorian Amazon is home to a rich biodiversity of woody plant species. Nonetheless,
their conservation remains difficult, as some areas remain poorly explored and lack …

Enhancing mango disease diagnosis through eco-informatics: A deep learning approach

AA Salamai - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
The mango is one of the most popular and economically important fruits in the world, but it is
vulnerable to various diseases that can significantly reduce the quality and yield of the fruit …

Identification of herbarium specimen sheet components from high‐resolution images using deep learning

KM Thompson, R Turnbull, E Fitzgerald… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced computer vision techniques hold the potential to mobilise vast quantities of
biodiversity data by facilitating the rapid extraction of text‐and trait‐based data from …

Integration of historic collections can shed light on patterns of change in plant–pollinator interactions and pollination service

D Rakosy, TL Ashman, L Zoller, A Stanley… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mutualistic interactions between plants and animal pollinators are increasingly under threat
through anthropogenic change, and it is critical to understand how temporal changes affect …

Utilizing herbarium specimens to assist with the listing of rare plants

B Molano-Flores, SA Johnson, PB Marcum… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Funding for rare plant conservation is limited. In addition, many aspects of the biology and
ecology of rare plants are unknown. Therefore, low-cost data generation approaches to fill …

Digitization of the Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium as a Unique Research Infrastructure to Study Arctic Climate Change and Inform Nature Management

N Iwanycki Ahlstrand - Collections, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Denmark
represents the largest collection of botanical specimens from Greenland and includes some …