October 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus

Photo courtesy of Court Whelan

Photo courtesy of Court Whelan
from Deb Paul @iDigBio
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The Digital Atlas of Ancient Life just released a free app for iPhones and iPads. The app is an electronic field guide that has an interactive digital atlas for the paleontology time periods: Neogene, Pennsylvanian, and Ordovician.

Purple loosestrife. Image courtesy: U-M Herbarium.
The University of Michigan recently published their fourth installment in a series of articles highlighting the University of Michigan Herbarium's digitization efforts and participation in ADBC.
The American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, George Mason University, STEPPE – Geological Society of America, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and the Yale Peabody Museum have joined to establish Enhancing Paleontological and Neontological Data Discovery (ePANDDA), a new application programming interface (API).

Long stalks of Thysanophora penicillioides, a microfungus that grows on fallen hemlock needles. Photo courtesy of: Kathie T. Hodge