Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research

Over 300 million arthropod specimens are housed in North American natural history collections. These collections represent a “vast hidden treasure trove” of biodiversity −95% of the specimen label data have yet to be transcribed for research, and less than 2% of the specimens have been imaged. Speci...

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Main Authors: Neil S. Cobb, Lawrence F. Gall, Jennifer M. Zaspel, Nicolas J. Dowdy, Lindsie M. McCabe, Akito Y. Kawahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-11-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8086.pdf