Herbarium collections constitute permanent and often well-documented records of the distribution of taxa through space and time. Since their creation, their uses have dramatically expanded and with many new uses being proposed, including some for which herbaria were not initially intended for. In this paper we assess the potential of these collections on conservation biology, by providing exemplary studies that use herbarium specimens, grouped into four categories: (1) based on occurrence data, such as studies about plant extinction or introduction, or those focused on modelling their ecological niche; (2) based on the specimens themselves, such as morphological or phenological studies to evaluate the impact of climate change; (3) based in genetic data, such as phylogeographic or taxonomical studies; and (4), other applied studies.

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评估标本馆收藏作为保护生物学工具的相关性

植物标本馆藏品构成了分类群在空间和时间上的分布的永久且通常有据可查的记录。自从它们创建以来，它们的用途急剧扩大，并提出了许多新用途，包括植物标本馆最初不打算用于的一些用途。在本文中，我们通过提供使用植物标本馆标本的示范性研究来评估这些收藏品在保护生物学方面的潜力，分为四类：（1）基于发生数据，例如关于植物灭绝或引入的研究，或专注于建模的研究他们的生态位；(2) 基于标本本身，如形态学或物候研究，以评估气候变化的影响；(3) 基于遗传数据，例如系统地理学或分类学研究；(4)、其他应用研究。