The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society

By A. Suarez, N. Tsutsui. 2004

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Subfields: Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Social Psychology

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Widespread historical presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in African pipid frogs (2010, background): “Museum specimens are increasingly recognized as a valuable source of epidemiological information (Suarez & Tsutsui, 2004).”
Natural History's Place in Science and Society (2014, background): “Meeting this challenge requires a greater investment in the organization, integration, and dissemination of current natural history knowledge within and outside of traditional collections (Suarez and Tsutsui 2004, Winker 2004, Hampton et al.”
Assessing the Value of Natural History Collections and Addressing Issues Regarding Long-Term Growth and Care (2014, background): “…for future research pertaining to societal issues such as biodiversity, extinctions (local and global), invasive species, emerging zoonoses, climate change, and environmental degradation (Suarez and Tsutsui 2004, Winker 2004, 2005, Wandeler et al. 2007, Mares 2009, Rowe et al. 2011, Anderson 2012).”
Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas (2017, background): “…sources of data about morphology, genetics, epidemiology, and disease spread, diet, or parasitism rates or the change in these variables through time (Roy et al., 1994; Fanning et al., 2002; Payne and Sorenson, 2002; Johnson et al., 2003; Suarez and Tsutsui, 2004; Babin-Fenske et al., 2008).”
Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest (2009, background): “Our study demonstrates the importance of using museum specimen data – an otherwise underutilized resource – to examine changes in biodiversity over time (Favret and DeWalt, 2002; Suarez and Tsutsui, 2004; DeWalt et al., 2005; Beck and Kitching, 2007; Kleijn and Raemakers, 2008).”
The influence of spatial errors in species occurrence data used in distribution models (2007, background): “Species occurrence data are increasingly available as a result of data generation, improvement and sharing initiatives in the natural history museum, broader scientific and conservation communities (Graham et al . 2004; Suarez & Tsutsui 2004 ).”
Assessing the Relevance of Herbarium Collections as Tools for Conservation Biology (2017, background): “On the other, they facilitate the evolutionary study of a plant, along with tracing changes in phenology and species morphology linked to climate change (Suarez & Tsutsui, 2004).”
Just How Imperiled Are Aquatic Insects? A Case Study of Stoneflies (Plecoptera) in Illinois (2005, background): “However, natural history museums and their taxonomic experts are not being well supported, despite their known value to society (Suarez and Tsutsui (2004).”
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. (2004, background): “In fact, many natural history museums, realizing that their collections represent genetic repositories, have established guidelines for removal of samples for molecular analyses and even installed molecular laboratories to work on their collections (142).”
Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions (2006, background): “…Philadelphia Natural History, New Natural History, Pittsburgh of continuous environmental variables; Holdridge et al., 1971). history museums and herbaria, as well as the dif-ﬁculty of making such data readily available, have been clear for many years (Anderson, 1963; Suarez and Tsutsui, 2004).”
Modelling the potential geographic distribution of invasive ant species in New Zealand (2007, background): “Presence-only modelling Museum records have great potential for ecological research, conservation issues, and in the study of invasive species (Loiselle et al. 2003; Suarez and Tsutsui 2004).”
Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data. (2009, background): “For these reasons, SDM relies heavily on presence-only data such as occurrence records from museums and herbaria (Ponder et al. 2001, Graham et al. 2004, Suarez and Tsutsui 2004).”
Validation of biological collections as a source of phenological data for use in climate change studies: a case study with the orchid Ophrys sphegodes (2011, background): “Until recently, the potential of such records has been largely overlooked (Suarez & Tsutsui 2004), even though the only data available for studying phenological trends in many species are those held in natural history collections in museums or herbaria.”
Completeness of digital accessible knowledge of the plants of Brazil and priorities for survey and inventory (2014, background): “For instance, occurrence data can be used to identify native ranges of invasive species or determine species climatic and environmental requirements (Peterson, 2003; Suarez & Tsutsui, 2004; Chapman, 2005).”