Darwin Core News Today

More tools are available to collate biodiversity data that can be used for conservation decision making.

ST. JOHNSBURY — For more than a century, volunteers and Fairbanks Museum staff have collected native wildflowers to share with the community and spread joy through the seasons.

As insect systematists adopt AI, we still need the humans who crawl through bushes and peer into museum drawers to be arbiters of biological truth.

Resource managers and policymakers need robust data about marine ecosystems for decision-making and setting sound policies. However, data about marine life can be challenging to collect, integrate, and analyze. Invertebrate animals are a key component of life on the seafloor, but their wide range of body sizes and diversity make it especially difficult to understand their abundance and distribution.