Finally, as many others have noted, northern institutions, including European museums and herbaria, hold much of the historical, legacy biodiversity information voucher specimens and associated data for many of the Tropical countries, owing to colonial-era explorations.
Good's coverage values ranged from 88% 100% per subject (mean 98%) therefore the true biodiversity of each specimen was adequately sampled.
In addition to searching published literature, each contributor to the biodiversity volume accessed specimen collections and records of many regional and nation museums, as well as personal collections, to verify the identification and range of species included in the volume.
For all visitors including students, the laboratory activities consisted of the observation of intra-specific phenotypic biodiversity of the specimens exposed.
In order to evaluate the effect of DNA extraction method on the quality of DNA, the DNA extracted from all six methods were used for the determination of the microbial biodiversity in wound specimens.
Access to these kinds of specimen-based biodiversity data has traditionally been cumbersome, often relying upon loans from individual researchers, herbaria or museums housing the specimens.
The GOs Network will support actions aiming to build a coordinated and well-contextualized set of genomic biodiversity observations and archived vouchers (specimens and environmental samples).
We found that increasing the number of specimens analyzed during biodiversity surveys through the implementation of a liberal sorting strategy that is not reliant on morphospecies exposed additional diversity that was not originally appreciated by collectors based strictly on external morphological characteristics.
Specimen images of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/?language=en&back), the Chinese Virtual Herbaria (http://www.cvh.org.cn/), and Global Plants on JSTOR (http://plants.jstor.org/) were consulted.
It is a minimalistic strategy, that has aided taxonomic work and biodiversity studies, by sorting and clustering specimens collected in the field, contributing to species discovery by flagging genetically distinct lineages.
