The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines
The role of natural history collections in documenting species declines
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DOI：
10.1016/s0169-5347(97)01177-4
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Davidson, C
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作者：
Shaffer, HB;Fisher, RN;Davidson, C
要记录现存种群的减少，需要对以前发生的事件进行历史记录。自然历史博物馆包含了世界上大多数地区的此类信息，至少在粗略的空间尺度上是这样。博物馆藏品已被成功地用于分析从单一地点到大型生物和政治区域的各种动植物的衰退，自然历史博物馆藏品，如果得到适当的分析，可以成为记录过去世纪生物多样性变化的宝贵工具。
Efforts to document the decline of extant populations require a historical record of previous occurrences. Natural history museums contain such information for most regions of the world, at least at a coarse spatial scale. Museum collections have been successfully used to analyse declines in a wide range of plants and animals, at spatial scales ranging from single localities to large biotic and political regions, Natural history museum collections, when properly analysed, can be an invaluable tool in documenting changes in biodiversity during the past century.