In the race to document the species on Earth before they go extinct, researchers and citizen scientists have assembled billions of records. Most records either come from physical specimens in a museum ...

verybody has a favorite color and season—preferences that seem innate, always defying reason. Auditors are no different when it comes to haphazard sampling, a process in which—ideally—they choose ...

Nanchang, China: Herbarium specimens serve as the empirical foundation of biodiversity research, underpinning species distribution mapping, ecological restoration, and conservation policy-making.

Ravishankar, Pavan, Qingyu Mo, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Provable Detection of Propagating Sampling Bias in Prediction Models." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial ...

It is hard to protect something if you don't know where it is. Yet many people who study and want to safeguard native plants are faced with this exact problem. There are roughly 340,000 species of ...