Herbarium collections remain essential in the age of community science

Abstract The past decade has yielded more biodiversity observations from community science than the past century of traditional scientific collection. This rapid influx of data is promising for overcoming critical biodiversity data shortfalls, but we also have vast untapped resources held in undigit...

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Published in:	Nature Communications
Main Authors:	Isaac Eckert, Anne Bruneau, Deborah A. Metsger, Simon Joly, T. A. Dickinson, Laura J. Pollock
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2024-08-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51899-1

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