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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PeerJ Inc.
2019-11-01
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