Science Enabled by Specimen Data
Ramírez, F., V. Sbragaglia, K. Soacha, M. Coll, and J. Piera. 2022. Challenges for Marine Ecological Assessments: Completeness of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Biodiversity Data in European Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.802235
The ongoing contemporary biodiversity crisis may result in much of ocean’s biodiversity to be lost or deeply modified without even being known. As the climate and anthropogenic-related impacts on marine systems accelerate, biodiversity knowledge integration is urgently required to evaluate and monit…
Battini, N., N. Farías, C. Giachetti, E. Schwindt, and A. Bortolus. 2019. Staying ahead of invaders: using species distribution modeling to predict alien species’ potential niche shifts. Marine Ecology Progress Series 612: 127–140. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12878
Early detection and rapid response are essential to prevent invasive species from thriving in marine environments following their introduction. Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the potential distribution of invasive species, providing excellent tools for the design of st…
Gams, W., B. Stielow, T. Gräfenhan, and H.-J. Schroers. 2019. The ascomycete genus Niesslia and associated monocillium-like anamorphs. Mycological Progress 18: 5–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-018-1459-5
The species of Niesslia including anamorphs formerly known as Monocillium form a distinct group in the Hypocreales and can be delimited by several unique morphological characters. Niesslia species inhabit decaying plant substrates, such as leaf litter or bark of diverse plants, especially coniferous…
Umstead, H., and J. T. Diggs. 2018. Shorter Note. American Fern Journal 108: 176. https://doi.org/10.1640/0002-8444-108.4.176
An Ornamental Plant Found Spreading Aggressively: Potential Invasiveness of Dryopteris erythrosora (Dryopteridaceae) in North America.—Dryopteris erythrosora (D.C. Eaton) Kunze (Dryopteridaceae) is a fern native to Japan, Korea, and China (Hoshizaki and Wilson, American Fern Journal 89:1–98. 1999). …
Alvarez, B., P. J. Frings, W. Clymans, G. Fontorbe, and D. J. Conley. 2017. Assessing the Potential of Sponges (Porifera) as Indicators of Ocean Dissolved Si Concentrations. Frontiers in Marine Science 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00373
We explore the distribution of sponges along dissolved silica (dSi) concentration gradients to test whether sponge assemblages are related to dSi and to assess the validity of fossil sponges as a palaeoecological tool for inferring dSi concentrations of the past oceans. We extracted sponge records f…