Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

Mass production of unvouchered records fails to represent global biodiversity patterns

BH Daru, J Rodriguez - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research

NS Cobb, LF Gall, JM Zaspel, NJ Dowdy, LM McCabe… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Over 300 million arthropod specimens are housed in North American natural history
collections. These collections represent a “vast hidden treasure trove” of biodiversity− 95 …

[图书][B] Biological collections: Ensuring critical research and education for the 21st century

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2021 - books.google.com
Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure
and a fundamental resource for understanding the natural world. Biological collections …

Born‐digital biodiversity data: Millions and billions

R Kays, WJ McShea, M Wikelski - Diversity and Distributions, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Given the dramatic pace of change of our planet, we need rapid collection of environmental
data to document how species are coping and to evaluate the impact of our conservation …

Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites

KE Galbreath, EP Hoberg, JA Cook… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Museum specimens play an increasingly important role in predicting the outcomes and
revealing the consequences of anthropogenically driven disruption of the biosphere. As …

Which mammals can be identified from camera traps and crowdsourced photographs?

R Kays, M Lasky, ML Allen, RC Dowler… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
While museum voucher specimens continue to be the standard for species identifications,
biodiversity data are increasingly represented by photographic records from camera traps …

The emerging role of mammal collections in 21st century mammalogy

JA Cook, JE Light - Journal of Mammalogy, 2019 - academic.oup.com
At this point I wish to emphasize what I believe will ultimately prove to be the greatest value
of our museum. This value will not, however, be realized until the lapse of many years …

Regional collections are an essential component of biodiversity research infrastructure

AK Monfils, ER Krimmel, JM Bates, JE Bauer… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ANNA K. MONFILS, ERICA R. KRIMMEL, JOHN M. BATES, JENNIFER E. BAUER,
MICHAEL W. BELITZ, BLAKE C. CAHILL, ALYSSA M. CAYWOOD, NEIL S. COBB, JULIA B …

Las colecciones biológicas de Chile deben potenciarse

G D'ELÍA - Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, 2024 - SciELO Chile
En esta revisión abogo por la necesidad de mejorar la infraestructura de las colecciones
biológicas de Chile y por el crecimiento continuo de su acervo. Para fundamentar este …