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ArticleBioscience2026

Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges.

David M Kunkel, Brooke L Long-Fox, Cameron Pittman, Julia Portmann, Matthew Sheik, John M Bates, Andrew Bentley, Dori L Contreras, Elizabeth R Ellwood, Michael W Lomas and 9 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

David M KunkelDepartment of Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6078-3700
Brooke L Long-FoxMorphoBank, Phoenix Bioinformatics, Newark, California, Department of Chemistry, Biology, Health Science, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2718-647X
Cameron PittmanDenver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4130-994X
Julia PortmannYale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0190-6192
Matthew SheikDenver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9496-6898
John M BatesNegaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5809-5941
Andrew BentleyBiodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258
Dori L ContrerasPerot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, Texas, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6820-7364
Elizabeth R EllwoodiDigBio, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1602-1917
Michael W LomasNational Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1209-3753
Anna K MonfilsDepartment of Biology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3553-6430
William E MoserNational Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-9347
Gil NelsoniDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7851-4445
Sinlan PooDepartment of Conservation and Research, Memphis Zoological Society, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7767-8173
Barbara ThiersNew York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-7133
Gregory J Watkins-ColwellYale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7789-9806
Michael S WebsterCornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-4578
Breda M ZimkusMuseum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8973-526X
Jyotsna L PandeyAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences, Herndon, Virginia, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8173-0424

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biodiversity collections in the United States hold over a billion specimens and are essential to understanding the history of life on Earth, as well as patterns of biodiversity in response to environmental change. Each specimen is linked by metadata to an organism's name and the place and time of its collection. Extensive data have been collected on Earth's geology, hydrology, climate, and organisms-past and present-but the data remain largely fragmented. We report in the present article on community discussions to develop a roadmap and identify action items for the Building an Integrated, Open, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (BIOFAIR) Data Network, directly linking the various types of biological and environmental data. The roadmap is organized into five themes: stocktaking and gap analysis, technological capacity building, best practices, education and training, and community building. Together, these themes chart a path from initial resource inventories and skill building to infrastructure development, cross‑disciplinary collaboration, and the establishment of FAIR‑compliant workflows and governance.

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best practices and standardsbiodiversity collectionscross‑disciplinary collaborationdata integrationstakeholder engagement

Identifiers

PMID41503403
PMCPMC12771510

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