Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault
Climate Change and Biosphere Response: Unlocking the Collections Vault
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DOI：
10.1525/bio.2011.61.2.10
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Stewart, John R.
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作者：
Johnson, Kenneth G.;Brooks, Stephen J.;Stewart, John R.
自然历史收集（NHC）是了解生物区系如何应对持续人为气候变化所需的长期数据的重要来源。其中包括用于生态建模的分类单元发生数据，以及可用于重建生物群对气候变化作出反应的机制的信息。在能够方便地获得高质量的数据集用于研究之前，国家水文中心在气候变化研究方面的全部潜力是无法充分实现的，但这需要更优先地将对气候变化研究最有用的数据集数字化（例如，整个生物群研究、时间序列、集中采样的常见分类群的记录）。自然历史收藏不应忽视新信息的扩散，这些信息来自于理解当今生态系统如何应对环境变化的努力。这些新的方向要求许多NHC持有者进行战略调整，以补充他们对分类学和系统学的现有关注。为了确定这些新的优先事项，我们需要NHC持有者和全球变化生物学家之间建立强有力的伙伴关系。
Natural history collections (NHCs) are an important source of the long-term data needed to understand how biota respond to ongoing anthropogenic climate change. These include taxon occurrence data for ecological modeling, as well as information that can be used to reconstruct mechanisms through which biota respond to changing climates. The full potential of NHCs for climate change research cannot be fully realized until high-quality data sets are conveniently accessible for research, but this requires that higher priority be placed on digitizing the holdings most useful for climate change research (e.g., whole-biota studies, time series, records of intensively sampled common taxa). Natural history collections must not neglect the proliferation of new information from efforts to understand how present-day ecosystems are responding to environmental change. These new directions require a strategic realignment for many NHC holders to complement their existing focus on taxonomy and systematics. To set these new priorities, we need strong partnerships between NHC holders and global change biologists.