Biobanks have become indispensable tools for a wide array of life and environmental
sciences, and biotechnology. To evaluate trends in biobanking, 20,000 bibliographic …

Colombia is the country with the largest number of bird species worldwide, yet its avifauna is
seriously threatened by habitat degradation and poaching. We built a DNA barcode library …

Piangua, Anadara tuberculosa, is an economically important mollusk for the human
population living on the Colombian Pacific Coast. In the last years, the demand and …

Phylogeographic studies seeking to describe biogeographic patterns, infer evolutionary
processes, and revise species-level classification should properly characterize the …

Responses to climate change and global warming could be said to “saturate our sense of
the now”(Chakrabarty 2009: 197). They do so no more than in the current designation of …

Biological collections are sources of knowledge, particularly critical to understand life when
they house specimens from megadiverse countries. However, the scientific value of …

Resumen en español Se presenta el diagnóstico del estado de organización y
conservación de la colección de escarabajos coprófagos (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) del …

Several of the first avifaunal surveys in Colombia were conducted in the lowland moist
forests of the Middle Magdalena Valley, but for decades this region has been understudied …

The importance of a scientific collection is related to the preservation quality of its
specimens. Specimens that have been properly preserved may contain more quantity and …

Several scientific reasons support continuing bird collection in Colombia, a megadiverse
country with modest science financing. Despite the recognized value of biological …