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What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’
Published 2025-01-01“…We examined global records of accessible natural history voucher collections (with publicly available data and reliable locality data) for terrestrial and freshwater vascular plants, fungi, freshwater fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) and highlight areas of the world that would be considered undersampled and sometimes called ‘unexplored’ (i.e., have relatively low, or no evidence of, past sampling efforts) under typical Western-scientific descriptions. …”
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Morpho-phylogenetic evidence for the first freshwater record of Trichoderma protrudens Samuels & P. Chaverri (Hypocreales, Sordariomycetes)
Published 2025-01-01“…This study represents the first global record of T. protrudens in a freshwater ecosystem, expanding this species’ known ecological range into aquatic environments. …”
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Digitization of BCIS bulletins and the ISC quest to verify pre-digital earthquakes
Published 2023-01-01“…We show that during the period going from the mid-1950s up to 1963 the BCIS is a unique source of station data that allowed us to verify thousands of earthquakes worldwide and significantly expand the global record of seismicity in those years. The data digitised in this work will play a key role in future works regarding earthquakes in the pre-digital era.…”
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The WHO Disease Outbreak News during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Published 2025-01-01“…We suggest that researchers should continue to exercise caution when treating the DON as a global record of outbreak history, but that the DON is a compelling record of the WHO itself, including the process it uses to assess outbreak risk.…”
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