Fund biodiversity collections

Integrating Biodiversity Data into Botanic Collections

BACKGROUND Today's species names are entry points into a web of publicly available knowledge and are integral parts of legislation concerning biological conservation and consumer safety. Species information usually is fragmented, can be misleading due to the existence of different names and might even be biased because of an identical name that is used for a different species. Safely navigating...

A Specimen-based View of the World Using the Biological Collections Ontology to Model Biodiversity Collections

Application ontologies for biodiversity and biomedical specimen data are being developed within the OBO Foundry framework. Both the Biological Collections Ontology (BCO) and the Ontologized Minimum Information About BIobank data Sharing (OMIABIS) are ontologies rooted in specimens and the need to track, share and query data about specimens. In this paper, we briefly describe the structure of th...

Foundations for an Integrative Parasitology: Collections, Archives, and Biodiversity Informatics

The potential for biodiversity offsetting to fund invasive species eradications on islands.

N.D. Holmes,∗ ¶ G.R. Howald,∗ A.S. Wegmann,∗ C.J. Donlan,†‡ M. Finkelstein,§ and B. Keitt∗ ∗Island Conservation, 2161 Delaware Ave Suite A, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, U.S.A. †Advanced Conservation Strategies, Via Agusta 12, Cordoba 14011, Spain ‡Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 15853, U.S.A. §University of California at Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Sant...

Extending the results of biodiversity - ecosystem function experiments to regional species collections

Rapid loss of global biodiversity has motivated a number of recent experiments that seek to understand how species richness affects ecosystem functioning. In the first round of studies, researchers have formed local communities differing in richness by selecting species at random from an experimental species pool, which is a subset of the 'regional' collection of species. Often, the effects of ...