Notes from Nature - Plants of Arkansas

Digitizing natural history collections is allowing researchers to answer important questions about precise locations, habitat requirements, and preferences of rare, common, and invasive species. Baseline information, such as county-level species distributions, are made more precise and are more updated through digitization, and habitat-specific species modeling predictions can be made to prioritize conservation efforts. Rapid access to collections information is critical for the scientific community to be able to answer important taxonomic and ecological questions in a world undergoing such rapid environmental change.