Research Spotlight: October 2021
Research Spotlight
The goals of the monthly iDigBio Research Spotlight are to highlight:
1) the use of iDigBio data in research projects,
2) the importance of vouchered specimen collections and their data for research,
3) different ways that collections data can be used in research projects, and/or
4) positive outcomes, such as policy changes or conservation actions, as a result of research using vouchered specimen data.
If you would like to contribute content to the monthly Research Spotlight, please contact us!
Research Spotlight: August 2021
Digitized paleontological collections recontextualize the ecology of introduced turkeys in California
Contributed by: Ashwin Sivakumar & Alexis Mychajliw
Research Spotlight: July 2021
Assessment of the pinned specimen digitization progress of the University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection
Ashley L. Smith, Derek S. Sikes, Taylor L. Kane, Adam Haberski, Jayce B. Williamson, Renee K. Nowicki, Michael J. Apperson
University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
This article was originally published in the Alaska Entomological Society Newsletter AKES_newsletter_2021_n1_a01.pdf (akentsoc.org)
Research Spotlight: June 2021
Thoreau still contributes to climate change research
New study uses Henry David Thoreau’s observations of fruiting times
Digitized museum specimens, such this bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis), were used to determine the time of fruit ripening. © Consortium of Northeast Herbaria.
Research Spotlight: May 2021
The Guatemala Biodiversity Portal, a national digitization effort using Symbiota
Contributed by Samanta Orellana
Research Spotlight: February 2021
by: Vaughn Shirey, Michael Belitz, Vijay Barve, Rob Guralnick
Research Spotlight: November 2020
Comparing the use of species occurrence data and information systems by academics and government professionals
Contributed by: Elizabeth Martín, Shari Ellis, Larry Page
Research Spotlight: October 2020
Unlocking the secret histories of bats in natural history collections
Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology
Research Spotlight: September 2020
Contributed by: Kayce C. Bell, Assistant Curator of Terrestrial Mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Research Spotlight: July 2020
Contributed by: Aaron Goodman, Graduate Student Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences.
Research Spotlight: June 2020
Article by: Zoliswa Nhleko, PhD candidate at the UF School of Natural Resources and Enviroment
Research Spotlight: April 2020
Contributed by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Find him on Twitter @LuisDVerde or on his Website.
Research Spotlight: March 2020
A data management workflow of biodiversity data from the field to data users
Rachel A Hackett, Michael W Belitz, Edward E Gilbert, And Anna K Monfils
Research Spotlight: November 2019
Virtual Collections on the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life
Article contributed by Jonathan R. Hendricks, Jaleigh Q. Pier, and Elizabeth J. Hermsen from the Cretaceous World TCN at the Paleontological Research Institution
Research Spotlight: October 2019
A distinct new era for plant specimen use
Contributed by Mason Heberling, Assistant Curator of Botany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Research Spotlight: September 2019
Research uses of online biodiversity data
Contributed by Joan Damerow, Postdoctoral Researcher, Field Museum of Natural History
Research Spotlight: June 2019
Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data
This article was contributed by Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History.
Figure1: A specimen of the cicada Hadoa duryi, available on the iDigBio portal.
Research Spotlight: May 2019
Conservation Focus: New Insights for Conservation from Expansion of Physical‐Collection Digital Data
Libby Ellwood, Pam Soltis, and Mary Klein
Research Spotlight: March 2019
Emerging frontiers in phenological research
Libby Ellwood, Katelin Pearson, and Gil Nelson
Research Spotlight: February 2019 (Phylogenetics)
Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates
Research Spotlight: February 2019 (Mollusks)
Research Spotlight: November 2018
Augustus Fendler Herbarium Specimens: A Locality Improvement Project
A component of the Southern Rocky Mountain Flora Database Project
Lance J. Gloss and Timothy J. S. Whitfeld
Brown U. Herbarium (BRU)
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Introduction
Research Spotlight: October 2018
Metabolic rates, climate, and macroevolution: a case study using Neogene molluscs
Luke C. Strotz, Erin E. Saupe, Julien Kimmig and Bruce S. Lieberman
Research Spotlight: September 2018
Utilising publicly available species occurrence records to generate contemporary estimates of medically important snake species distributions
Contributed by: Joshua Longbottom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Research Spotlight: July 2018
Digital Coyote; an online archive of skulls
Contributed by: Osrica Mclean and Declan McCabe
How can you provide an authentic opportunity for undergraduate students to study geographical variation without hauling them to major metropolitan museums and arranging access to valuable specimens? This question started a slightly obsessive odyssey that began with a single coyote skull and now stands at 125 skulls….and counting.
Research Spotlight: February 2018
From the Tropics to the Drawer and Back: Digitized New World Swallowtail Butterfly Specimens Inform Biodiversity Patterns
Contributed by: Hannah Owens from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Research Spotlight: January 2018
New Insights from Old Herbarium Specimens
Contributed by Richard B. Primack (Boston University; primack@bu.edu) and Charles G. Willis (Harvard University; charleswillis@fas.harvard.edu)
“Live in each season as it passes - breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit & resign yourself to the influence of each.” Thoreau, in his Journal. 1835
Natural History Collections as Primary Data in Ecological Research
Prologue: Many of us in the ADBC world look for ways to expand the community of users of museum collections data and to increase the ways in which collections data are used. Recently, in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TrEE), an opinion piece was published by Scott A. Morrison, et al. titled "Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist." In this paper, Morrison, et al.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Digitized Collections Data
Contributed by Pam Soltis and Adania Flemming
iDigBio supported five students in its inaugural mini-REU site program during summer, 2017. This program, modeled on NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, was developed to provide undergraduates with research opportunities using digitized natural history collection data.
Research Spotlight: September 2017
Using convolutional neural networks to automate tropical pollen counts and identification
Contributed by: Derek Haselhorst, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois
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