Vol. 20 No. 2 (2026): Biodiversity Knowledge Shortfalls: Understanding, Quantifying, and Bridging Gaps

For Special Issue: Biodiversity Knowledge Shortfalls: Understanding, Quantifying, and Bridging Gaps

• Biodiversity Knowledge Shortfalls: Understanding, Quantifying, and Bridging Gaps

  Angela P. Cuervo-Robayo, Luis E. Escobar, Sara Gamboa

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• BiOS: An open-source framework for the integration of heterogeneous biodiversity data

  Alejandro Roldán, Tomás Golomb Durán, Antoni Josep Far, Maria Capa, Enrique Arboleda, Tommaso Cancellario

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• BioDyn: A tool for the spatiotemporal analysis of intra-specific geographic data

  Tiago A. Herrador, Carla A. Reati, Pablo Yair Huais, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Rusby Contreras-Díaz, Susana I. Peluc, Javier Nori

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• Spatially adaptive background delimitation strategies for species distribution models with unevenly surveyed occurrences

  A. Márcia Barbosa

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• Data curation on species occurrence records placed in unrecognized distributions shapes our understanding of plant bioclimatic niches

  Cristina Ronquillo, Juliana Stropp, Joaquín Hortal

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• Leveraging the Citizen Science Platform iNaturalist for the Targeted Collection of Natural History Specimens

  Lara Shepherd, Leon Perrie

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• Conservation Science and the Knowledge Shortfalls

  Jorge Soberon

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• Adapting digital humanities tools for biodiversity science: A case study in field notebook digitization and the Extended Specimen Network.

  Andrea Weeks, Jason H. Best, Wendy Mann, Mare Nazaire, Ana Niño, Matthew Sheik, Krishna B. Shenoy, Alyssa T. Fahringer

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• Spatio-temporal patterns of arthropod leaf-litter communities in protected Mexican tropical deciduous forests revealed by metabarcoding

  Pilar Benites, Karina Astudillo-Pavón, Milan Janda, Flavio Zárate-Hernández, Natalia Bautista Briceño, Angelica M. Penteado-Dias, Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, Antonio García Bautista

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• Finding the Missing Links: Knowledge Shortfalls in Plant–Hummingbird Interaction Networks Across the Americas

  Alejandro R. Villa, Wesley Dáttilo

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• Bridging the Raunkiæran Shortfall through specimen-anchored, AI-derived trait infrastructure

  Yasin Bakış

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• ArctosR: An R package to interface with the Arctos Museum Database API

  Harlan R. Williams, Jocelyn P. Colella, Vijay Barve, Michelle S. Koo, Marlon E. Cobos

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