As is illustrated in BioScience’s recently released special collection, Natural History Collections: Advancing the Frontiers of Science (https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/pages/natural-history-collections), new tools and techniques for mobilizing and using biodiversity data from natural history collections are catalyzing innovative science. However, these collections (the physical facilities and human capital) have become marginalized components of the US scientific enterprise. As was chronicled by E. Sally Chang in her BioScience report, “Beyond Specimens: Research, Education, and Policy” (https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa084), the need to identify strategies for bolstering the nation's natural history collections and the biodiversity-enabled and biodiversity-related science they support was the focus of the 2019 meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Council of Member Societies and Organizations.

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需要自然史资料集来推进科学，解决问题

正如BioScience最近发布的特殊收藏集所阐明的那样，《自然历史收藏集：推进科学前沿》（https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/pages/natural-history-collection），新的工具和技术可以动员和利用自然历史记录中的生物多样性数据可以促进创新科学的发展。但是，这些馆藏（物质设施和人力资本）已成为美国科学企业的边缘化组成部分。正如E. Sally Chang在她的《生物科学》中所记载的那样 报告，“超越标本：研究，教育和政策”（https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa084），需要确定加强国家自然历史收藏以及与生物多样性相关和与生物多样性相关的战略他们支持的科学是美国生物科学研究所会员协会和组织理事会2019年会议的重点。