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Supporting references for Nelson & Ellis (2018) The History and Impact of Digitization and Digital Data Mobilization on Biodiversity Research

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2020	Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities (GLOBAL) - 2020 Highlights Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard (ESB) - 2020 Highlights Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) - 2020 Highlights
2019	Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease (TPT) - 2020 Highlights American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States (TORCH) - 2020 Highlights Enhancing Access to Taxonomic and Biogeographical Data to Stem the Tide of Extinction of the Highly Imperiled Pacific Island Land Snails (PILSBRY) - 2020 Highlights
2018	Capturing California's Flowers: Using Digital Images to Investigate Phenological Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot (CAP) - 2020 Highlights The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An Integrative Approach to Pteridophyte Diversity Over the Last 420 Million Years (PCC) - 2020 Highlights Digitizing "Endless Forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies (Endless Forms) - 2020 Highlights
2017	Using Herbarium Data To Document Plant Niches In The High Peaks And High Plains Of The Southern Rockies - Past, Present, And Future (SoRo)- 2020 highlights oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D (oVert) - 2020 highlights
2016	Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores (LepNet) - 2020 highlights The Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in the Western Interior Seaway (Cretaceous World) - 2020 highlights The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world (MAM) - 2020 highlights
2015	The Microfungi Collections Consortium (MiCC) - 2020 highlights Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrate Communities of the Eastern Pacific (EPICC) - 2020 highlights
2014	Great Lakes Invasives (GLI) - 2017 highlights InvertEBase - 2020 highlights SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC) - 2020 highlights
2013	Fossil Insect Collaborative (FIC) - 2018 highlights Vouchered Animal Communication Signals (VACS) - 2017 highlights Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium (MHC) - 2018 highlights
2012	New England Vascular Plants (NEVP) - 2017 highlights PaleoNICHES - 2018 highlights Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) - 2017 highlights Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN) - 2020 highlights
2011	InvertNet - 2017 highlights Tri-trophic (TTD) - 2019 highlights Lichens & Bryophytes (LBCC) - 2019 hightlights

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