Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

NatureServe is a US nonprofit organization dedicated to unlocking the power of science to guide biodiversity conservation. NatureServe and its public-private network gather and maintain a unique body of detailed scientific information on the location, condition, and status of the at-risk (G1-G3) plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. NatureServe Conservation Status Ranks indicate relative extinction risk from “Critically Imperiled, globally” (G1) to “Secure, globally” (G5) using occurrence data from the network, natural history collections, and iNaturalist. For newly described, resurrected, or cryptic taxa, NatureServe relies heavily on natural history collections to calculate conservation status ranks. A summary of georefencing work for at least 25 taxa and over 1,600 herbarium specimens will be provided, and conservation stories and impacts resulting from recently assessed taxa will be shared.