Data collected by citizen science initiatives, museums and national parks is an important basis for research on biodiversity change. However, scientists found that sampling sites are oftentimes not ...

M.S. in Biodiversity Data Analytics Program Director Viorel Popescu examines why biodiversity commitments are running into a ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Diversity and Distributions Vol. 30, No. 6, June 2024 Causes and effects of sampling bias on m ...

Despite the accelerating pace of biodiversity data collection, just 42% of nations have expanded their scientific understanding of bird species distributions in the last decade, according to a study ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Much of field biology and resource conservation work includes monitoring biodiversity, whether it is plant growth, animal movement, population ...

Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of local species richness trends. This is the conclusion of an international research team led by the German Centre for ...

Rapid advances in sequencing technology are expanding our understanding of biodiversity and evolution in complex plant groups, but access to samples remains a problem. Herbarium material provides a ...

Traces of life in the environment reveal ecosystem health, prompting a scientific hunt for them. During her doctoral studies in 2009, Professor Kristy Deiner trudged around mountain lakes in the U.S.

A team of scientists have discovered that two air quality monitoring stations in the U.K. also collected DNA samples that could benefit biodiversity monitoring. Scientists analyzed DNA samples trapped ...

Mosquitoes carry DNA from dozens of animals, creating tiny “libraries” of wildlife. Researchers show these insects could ...