Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Biology Department, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA.
Nat Plants. 2019 Jan;5(1):11-13. doi: 10.1038/s41477-018-0322-7. Epub 2018 Dec 31.
Advances in biodiversity science, coupled with new technologies and big data platforms, are expanding our ability to explore and understand the natural world. For the first time, biologists can link data from growing repositories and computational approaches to better integrate plant evolution and ecology at the broadest extents. The emerging synthesis is reshaping our views of plant diversification and guiding new approaches to conservation.
生物多样性科学的进步，加上新技术和大数据平台，正在扩大我们探索和理解自然世界的能力。生物学家首次可以将来自不断增长的存储库和计算方法的数据联系起来，从而在最广泛的范围内更好地整合植物进化和生态学。正在出现的综合正在重塑我们对植物多样化的看法，并指导新的保护方法。
