Vijay Barve

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Aug 2023 Global Registry of Scientific Collections, or GRSciColl, is a comprehensive registry of natural history collections maintained by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), building upon previous efforts developed by the Consortium of the Barcode of Life (CBOL) and other organizations. Its primary purpose is to provide a centralized platform for accessing information on institutions, their collections and associated staff members.

Highlights • Butterfly phylogenetic diversity (PD) is highest in the warmest, wettest areas • Areas with historically stable temperatures have high relative PD (RPD) • The relationship of plant and butterfly RPD is weak and spatially structured • North American warm deserts have high endemism, making it a conservation priority Summary Broad-scale, quantitative assessments of insect biodiversity and the factors shaping it remain particularly poorly explored.

Proceedings of TDWG 1: e20311 doi: 10.3897/tdwgproceedings.1.20311 Received: 15 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017 This article is part of: Authors Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, United States of America Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) -BHU, Varanasi, India Informatics Institute of Technology, Colombo, Sri Lanka Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,...