[HTML][HTML] Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age

JE Ball-Damerow, L Brenskelle, N Barve, PS Soltis… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Our world is in the midst of unprecedented change—climate shifts and sustained,
widespread habitat degradation have led to dramatic declines in biodiversity rivaling …

Entomological collections in the age of big data

AEZ Short, T Dikow, CS Moreau - Annual Review of Entomology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
With a million described species and more than half a billion preserved specimens, the large
scale of insect collections is unequaled by those of any other group. Advances in genomics …

Species‐level image classification with convolutional neural network enables insect identification from habitus images

OLP Hansen, JC Svenning, K Olsen… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in insect biomass, abundance, and diversity are challenging to track at
sufficient spatial, temporal, and taxonomic resolution. Camera traps can capture habitus …

[HTML][HTML] The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

FT Bakker, A Antonelli, JA Clarke, JA Cook… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational
innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich …

Endless forams:> 34,000 modern planktonic foraminiferal images for taxonomic training and automated species recognition using convolutional neural networks

AY Hsiang, A Brombacher, MC Rillo… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Planktonic foraminiferal species identification is central to many paleoceanographic studies,
from selecting species for geochemical research to elucidating the biotic dynamics of …

Image-based species identification of wild bees using convolutional neural networks

K Buschbacher, D Ahrens, M Espeland… - Ecological Informatics, 2020 - Elsevier
Monitoring insect populations is vital for estimating the health of ecosystems. Recently,
insect population decline has been highlighted both in the scientific world and the media …

[HTML][HTML] An automated device for the digitization and 3D modelling of insects, combining extended-depth-of-field and all-side multi-view imaging

B Ströbel, S Schmelzle, N Blüthgen, M Heethoff - ZooKeys, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Digitization of natural history collections is a major challenge in archiving biodiversity. In
recent years, several approaches have emerged, allowing either automated digitization …

[图书][B] The evolutionary biology of species

TG Barraclough - 2019 - books.google.com
'Species' are central to understanding the origin and dynamics of biological diversity;
explaining why lineages split into multiple distinct species is one of the main goals of …

[HTML][HTML] scAnt—an open-source platform for the creation of 3D models of arthropods (and other small objects)

F Plum, D Labonte - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
We present scAnt, an open-source platform for the creation of digital 3D models of
arthropods and small objects. scAnt consists of a scanner and a Graphical User Interface …

[HTML][HTML] The SITE-100 project: Site-based biodiversity genomics for species discovery, community ecology, and a global tree-of-life

X Bian, BH Garner, H Liu, AP Vogler - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most insect communities are composed of evolutionarily diverse lineages, but detailed
phylogenetic analyses of whole communities are lacking, in particular in species-rich …