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Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene

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Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is limited by a lack of biological data spanning the Anthropocene. We propose that the hundreds of millions of plant, fungal and animal specimens deposited in natural history museums have the potential to transform the field of global change biology. We suggest that museum specimens are underused, particularly in ecological studies, given their capacity to reveal patterns that are not observable from other data sources. Increasingly, museum specimens are becoming mobilized online, providing unparalleled access to physiological, ecological and evolutionary data spanning decades and sometimes centuries. Here, we describe the diversity of collections data archived in museums and provide an overview of the diverse uses and applications of these data as discussed in the accompanying collection of papers within this theme issue. As these unparalleled resources are under threat owing to budget cuts and other institutional pressures, we aim to shed light on the unique discoveries that are possible in museums and, thus, the singular value of natural history collections in a period of rapid change.

摘要： Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is limited by a lack of biolog... 查看全部>>

关键词：
global change climate change museum historical data Anthropocene herbarium
作者：

Davis, Charles C. Davies, T. Jonathan Daru, Barnabas H. Meineke, Emily K.
作者单位：

Univ British Columbia, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

Texas A&M Univ Corpus Christi, Dept Life Sci, Corpus Christi, TX 78412 USA

Harvard Univ, Dept Organism & Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
刊名：

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Biological Sciences
年，卷(期)：
2019,374(1763)
分类号：
Q
页数：

共9页