Increasingly, paleorecords are used as historical baselines for landscape management, conservation, and restoration. (eos.org)
A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as... (news.mongabay.com)
It also launched an effort to digitize the museum's extensive collections and recruit data scientists to harness and organize the data embedded in the millions of natural history objects that can reveal «critical historical baselines for studies of environmental and evolutionary change,» she said. (aaas.org)