Biological collections are at the front line of biodiversity research, informing taxonomy, evolution, conservation and sustainable livelihoods. In April 2014, we organised a meeting at the Linnean Society (UK) discussing the impact of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods on collections-based research. Here, we explore the main themes of this meeting and outline the incredible potential o…
† Background and Aims: Paleoclimatic data indicate that an abrupt climate change occurred at the Eocene–Oligocene (E–O) boundary affecting the distribution of tropical forests on Earth. The same period has seen the emergence of South-East (SE) Asia, caused by the collision of the Eurasian and Australian plates. How the combination of these climatic and geomorphological factors affected …