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View article: Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: An historical and phylogeographical retrospective
Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: An historical and phylogeographical retrospective Open
Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is a major pathogen of rice in Africa. RYMV has a narrow host range limited to rice and a few related poaceae species. We explore the links between the spread of RYMV in East Africa and rice history since th…
View article: Coordinating Digitization and Trait Data Mobilization Across California Herbaria: The Importance of Resourced Support People
Coordinating Digitization and Trait Data Mobilization Across California Herbaria: The Importance of Resourced Support People Open
The California Phenology Network was a National Science Foundation-funded project that energized herbaria across California, U.S.A. to digitize and mobilize herbarium specimen data from 2018–2023. This community built their digitization wo…
View article: Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: an historical and phylogeographical retrospective
Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: an historical and phylogeographical retrospective Open
Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is a major pathogen of rice in Africa. RYMV has a narrow host range limited to rice and a few related poaceae species. We explore the links between the spread of RYMV in East Africa and rice history since th…
View article: Advances in the Digitization and Mobilization of Natural History Collections in Guatemala
Advances in the Digitization and Mobilization of Natural History Collections in Guatemala Open
Since its development in 2020, the Guatemala Biodiversity Portal (Fig. 1), generated with Symbiota (Gries et al. 2014, Gilbert et al. 2020, Symbiota Support Hub 2021), has turned into an outstanding resource to facilitate the digitization,…
View article: Humans in the loop: Community science and machine learning synergies for overcoming herbarium digitization bottlenecks
Humans in the loop: Community science and machine learning synergies for overcoming herbarium digitization bottlenecks Open
Premise Among the slowest steps in the digitization of natural history collections is converting imaged labels into digital text. We present here a working solution to overcome this long‐recognized efficiency bottleneck that leverages syne…
View article: Growth and Evolution of the Symbiota Portal Network
Growth and Evolution of the Symbiota Portal Network Open
Symbiota is empowering biodiversity collections communities across the globe to efficiently manage and mobilize their data. Beginning with only a handful of collections in two major portals in the early 2010s (Gries et al. 2014), Symbiota …
View article: Towards a dynamic checklist of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of Ecuador – using the <i>Consortium of Lichen Herbaria</i> to manage fungal biodiversity in a megadiverse country
Towards a dynamic checklist of lichen-forming, lichenicolous and allied fungi of Ecuador – using the <i>Consortium of Lichen Herbaria</i> to manage fungal biodiversity in a megadiverse country Open
A checklist of Lichen-forming, Lichenicolous and Allied Fungi of Ecuador is presented with a total of 2599 species, of which 39 are reported for the first time from the country. The names of three species, Hypotrachyna montufariensis , H. …
View article: Symbiota Integrations: Exploration of Historical and Current Methods of Data Sharing Across a Decentralized Portal Network and Goals of Extending Interoperability Globally
Symbiota Integrations: Exploration of Historical and Current Methods of Data Sharing Across a Decentralized Portal Network and Goals of Extending Interoperability Globally Open
Over the last decade, the Symbiota open-source software has been readily available to establish occurrence-based data portals that represent the taxonomic and geographic expertise of a specific community of researchers. Reasons for establi…
View article: Unified and pluralistic ideals for data sharing and reuse in biodiversity
Unified and pluralistic ideals for data sharing and reuse in biodiversity Open
How should billions of species observations worldwide be shared and made reusable? Many biodiversity scientists assume the ideal solution is to standardize all datasets according to a single, universal classification and aggregate them int…
View article: Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal
Taxonomic Curation in a Multi-taxa Symbiota Portal Open
Symbiota is an open-source software that allows the creation of online portals for accessing, managing, and mobilizing biodiversity data (Gries et al. 2014, Symbiota Support Hub 2021). Most of the portals are focused on communities with sp…
View article: Creating a National Biodiversity Database in Gabon and the Challenges of Mobilizing Natural History Data for Francophone Countries
Creating a National Biodiversity Database in Gabon and the Challenges of Mobilizing Natural History Data for Francophone Countries Open
Language is a major barrier for researchers wanting to digitize and publish collection data in Africa. Despite being the fifth most spoken language on Earth and the second most common in Africa, resources in French about digitization, data…
View article: Data Standards for the Phenology of Plant Specimens
Data Standards for the Phenology of Plant Specimens Open
Phenological data (i.e., data on growth and reproductive events of organisms) are increasingly being used to study the effects of climate change, and biodiversity specimens have arisen as important sources of phenological data. However, ph…
View article: Announcing Big-Bee: An initiative to promote understanding of bees through image and trait digitization
Announcing Big-Bee: An initiative to promote understanding of bees through image and trait digitization Open
While bees are critical to sustaining a large proportion of global food production, as well as pollinating both wild and cultivated plants, they are decreasing in both numbers and diversity. Our understanding of the factors driving these d…
View article: Decentralized but Globally Coordinated Biodiversity Data
Decentralized but Globally Coordinated Biodiversity Data Open
Centralized biodiversity data aggregation is too often failing societal needs due to pervasive and systemic data quality deficiencies. We argue for a novel approach that embodies the spirit of the Web (“small pieces loosely joined”) throug…
View article: Historical Overview of the Development of the Symbiota Specimen Management Software and Review of the Interoperability Challenges and Opportunities Informing Future Development
Historical Overview of the Development of the Symbiota Specimen Management Software and Review of the Interoperability Challenges and Opportunities Informing Future Development Open
Symbiota (Gries et al. 2014) is an open-source software platform designed to function as a biodiversity Content Management System (CMS) for specimen-based datasets. Primarily in North America though also increasingly on other continents, t…
View article: THE CALIFORNIA PHENOLOGY COLLECTIONS NETWORK: USING DIGITAL IMAGES TO INVESTIGATE PHENOLOGICAL CHANGE IN A BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT
THE CALIFORNIA PHENOLOGY COLLECTIONS NETWORK: USING DIGITAL IMAGES TO INVESTIGATE PHENOLOGICAL CHANGE IN A BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT Open
The California Phenology Thematic Collections Network (CAP TCN) is a collaborative project that seeks to maximize the value of herbarium specimens and their data, especially for understanding changes in plant phenology due to anthropogenic…
View article: A data management workflow of biodiversity data from the field to data users
A data management workflow of biodiversity data from the field to data users Open
Premise Heterogeneity of biodiversity data from the collections, research, and management communities presents challenges for data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Workflows designed with data collection, stan…
View article: Distributed, but Global in Reach: Outline of a de-centralized paradigm for biodiversity data intelligence
Distributed, but Global in Reach: Outline of a de-centralized paradigm for biodiversity data intelligence Open
We provide an overview and update on initiatives and approaches to add taxonomic data intelligence to distributed biodiversity knowledge networks. "Taxonomic intelligence" for biodiversity data is defined here as the ability to identify an…
View article: SEINet: A Centralized Specimen Resource Managed by a Distributed Network of Researchers
SEINet: A Centralized Specimen Resource Managed by a Distributed Network of Researchers Open
The SEINet Portal Network has a complex social and development history spanning nearly two decades. Initially established as a basic online search engine for a select handful of biological collections curated within the southwestern United…
View article: Predation of Xenopeltis unicolor (Serpentes: Xenopeltidae) on Kaloula pulchra (Anura: Microhylidae) in Bangkok, Thailand
Predation of Xenopeltis unicolor (Serpentes: Xenopeltidae) on Kaloula pulchra (Anura: Microhylidae) in Bangkok, Thailand Open
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View article: Use of globally unique identifiers ( <scp>GUID</scp> s) to link herbarium specimen records to physical specimens
Use of globally unique identifiers ( <span>GUID</span> s) to link herbarium specimen records to physical specimens Open
With the advent of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program and related worldwide digitization initiatives, the rate of herbarium specimen digitization in the United States has expan…
View article: Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio): The Biocollections Community's Citizen-Science Space on the Calendar
Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio): The Biocollections Community's Citizen-Science Space on the Calendar Open
The digitization of biocollections is a critical task with direct implications for the global community who use the data for research and education. Recent innovations to involve citizen scientists in digitization increase awareness of the…
View article: Documenting Reproductive Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Experiences from the New England Vascular Plants Project
Documenting Reproductive Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Experiences from the New England Vascular Plants Project Open
Herbarium specimens and associated label data are valuable sources of phenological data. They can provide information about the phenological state of the specimen and information about how phenology varies in space and time. In an effort t…
View article: TaxaGloss - A Glossary and Translation Tool for Biodiversity Studies
TaxaGloss - A Glossary and Translation Tool for Biodiversity Studies Open
Correctly identifying organisms is key to most biological research, and is especially critical in areas of biodiversity and conservation. Yet it remains one of the greatest challenges when studying all but the few well-established model sy…
View article: Controlling the taxonomic variable: Taxonomic concept resolution for a southeastern United States herbarium portal
Controlling the taxonomic variable: Taxonomic concept resolution for a southeastern United States herbarium portal Open
Overview. Taxonomic names are imperfect identifiers of specific and sometimes conflicting taxonomic perspectives in aggregated biodiversity data environments. The inherent ambiguities of names can be mitigated using syntactic and semantic …
View article: Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference of research on the Colorado Plateau
Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Conference of research on the Colorado Plateau Open
Mountain snow cover of the Colorado River Basin (CRB) has had a fivefold increase in dust loading since Anglo settlement of the western United States in the mid-19th century.This dust deposition accelerates snowmelt by reducing albedo thro…