The history and impact of digitization and digital data mobilization on biodiversity research

G Nelson, S Ellis - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Best practice for biodiversity data management and publication

MJ Costello, J Wieczorek - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
There is increasing pressure from the scientific community, including funding agencies,
journals and peers, for authors to publish the biodiversity data used in published articles and …

iN aturalist as a tool to expand the research value of museum specimens

JM Heberling, BL Isaac - Applications in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Innovative approaches to specimen collection and curation are needed
to maximize the utility of natural history collections in a new era of data use. Associated data …

MIReAD, a minimum information standard for reporting arthropod abundance data

SSC Rund, K Braak, L Cator, K Copas, SJ Emrich… - Scientific Data, 2019 - nature.com
Arthropods play a dominant role in natural and human-modified terrestrial ecosystem
dynamics. Spatially-explicit arthropod population time-series data are crucial for statistical or …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative and dynamic approach for monographing species-rich plant groups–Building the global synthesis of the angiosperm order Caryophyllales

T Borsch, P Hernández-Ledesma… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the major goals of systematics is to provide a synthesis of knowledge on the diversity
of a group of organisms, such as flowering plants. Biodiversity conservation and …

[HTML][HTML] On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick

DS Sikes, K Copas, T Hirsch, JT Longino, D Schigel - ZooKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ferro and Flick (2015) describe their efforts to estimate the distribution for a species of rove
beetle via the study of specimens from entomological collections, and compare these results …

[PDF][PDF] An annotated checklist of rust fungi (Pucciniales) occurring in Portugal

P Talhinhas, R Carvalho, R Figueira, AP Ramos - Sydowia, 2019 - repository.utl.pt
In this work we have retrieved and analysed data for 2319 occurrences of rust fungi from 246
Pucciniales taxa in Portugal based on 115 publications and our own surveys, totalizing 683 …

[HTML][HTML] Sirdavidia, an extraordinary new genus of Annonaceae from Gabon

TLP Couvreur, R Niangadouma, B Sonké, H Sauquet - PhytoKeys, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A distinctive new monotypic genus from Gabon is described in the tropical plant family
Annonaceae: Sirdavidia, in honor to Sir David Attenborough. Molecular phylogenetic …

Using the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy to prepare and publish a treatment for the Caryophyllales Network: an online synthesis of the Nepenthaceae

WG Berendsohn, T Borsch, A Güntsch, A Kohlbecker… - Willdenowia, 2018 - BioOne
The Caryophyllales Network strives to assemble an online dynamic synthesis of the order
Caryophyllales, uniting the current knowledge about the phylogeny of the order with up-to …

[HTML][HTML] Dataset of occurrence and incidence of pine processionary moth in Andalusia, south Spain

A Ros-Candeira, AJ Pérez-Luque, M Suárez-Muñoz… - ZooKeys, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This dataset provides information about infestation caused by the pine processionary moth
(Thaumetopoea pityocampa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)) in pure or mixed pine …