Enhancing Ecological Research with iDigBio Specimen Data ESA 2015: Difference between revisions

What’s in a 42,534,444+ record database at iDigBio for ecologists to mine (with over 11,000,000 images)? Natural history museum specimen data provides opportunities for niche modeling for climate change, tissue culture for improving genetic robustness, geographical patterns of diversification in a species complex, investigating phenological change, enhanced historical biodiversity baseline distributions knowledge, and examining speciation hypotheses. Discover data for your research, classroom, education, outreach, and citizen science initiatives. Who is using natural history collections data? How are the data being used? What are the challenges? You, as an ecologist, can be part of this nationwide initiative. Join us to find out how.