scholarly journals Coral Microcosms: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Change Biology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Schubert ◽  
Thomas Wilke
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Global Change Biology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Exploring long-term trends in marine ecosystems: machine-learning approaches to global change biology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenico D'Alelio ◽  
Salvatore Rampone ◽  
Luigi Maria Cusano ◽  
Nadia Sanseverino ◽  
Luca Russo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Global Change Biology ◽  
Long Term Trends

scholarly journals Using insect natural history collections to study global change impacts: challenges and opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 374 (1763) ◽  
pp. 20170405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather M. Kharouba ◽  
Jayme M. M. Lewthwaite ◽  
Rob Guralnick ◽  
Jeremy T. Kerr ◽  
Mark Vellend
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Genomic Information ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
Global Change Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Over the past two decades, natural history collections (NHCs) have played an increasingly prominent role in global change research, but they have still greater potential, especially for the most diverse group of animals on Earth: insects. Here, we review the role of NHCs in advancing our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary responses of insects to recent global changes. Insect NHCs have helped document changes in insects' geographical distributions, phenology, phenotypic and genotypic traits over time periods up to a century. Recent work demonstrates the enormous potential of NHCs data for examining insect responses at multiple temporal, spatial and phylogenetic scales. Moving forward, insect NHCs offer unique opportunities to examine the morphological, chemical and genomic information in each specimen, thus advancing our understanding of the processes underlying species’ ecological and evolutionary responses to rapid, widespread global changes. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the anthropocene’.

scholarly journals Fungarium specimens: a largely untapped source in global change biology and beyond

2018 ◽  
Vol 374 (1763) ◽  
pp. 20170392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Andrew ◽  
Jeffrey Diez ◽  
Timothy Y. James ◽  
Håvard Kauserud
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
Sampling Location ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Dispersal Patterns ◽  
Global Change Biology ◽  
Richness Patterns ◽  
Collection Date

For several hundred years, millions of fungal sporocarps have been collected and deposited in worldwide collections (fungaria) to support fungal taxonomy. Owing to large-scale digitization programs, metadata associated with the records are now becoming publicly available, including information on taxonomy, sampling location, collection date and habitat/substrate information. This metadata, as well as data extracted from the physical fungarium specimens themselves, such as DNA sequences and biochemical characteristics, provide a rich source of information not only for taxonomy but also for other lines of biological inquiry. Here, we highlight and discuss how this information can be used to investigate emerging topics in fungal global change biology and beyond. Fungarium data are a prime source of knowledge on fungal distributions and richness patterns, and for assessing red-listed and invasive species. Information on collection dates has been used to investigate shifts in fungal distributions as well as phenology of sporocarp emergence in response to climate change. In addition to providing material for taxonomy and systematics, DNA sequences derived from the physical specimens provide information about fungal demography, dispersal patterns, and are emerging as a source of genomic data. As DNA analysis technologies develop further, the importance of fungarium specimens as easily accessible sources of information will likely continue to grow. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene’.

scholarly journals Global Change Biology Introduction-FACEing the future conference

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 3873-3874
Author(s):  
Christoph Müller ◽  
Gerald Moser
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Future Conference ◽  
Global Change Biology ◽  
The Future
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