Fig. 1From: Climate change, collections and the classroom: using big data to tackle big problemsTypes of natural history museum data. Natural history specimens form the core of a large, integrative network of information that can be used to address numerous questions regarding environmental and climate change. In addition to traditional physical specimens (e.g., skins and skulls), data collected in the field (yellow circles) include photos, field notes, capture localities, and tissue samples. These materials, in turn, are used to document multiple aspects of an organism’s biology (green circles), including elements of genotypic and phenotypic variation as well as interspecific relationships such as parasite-pathogen dynamics, co-evolutionary relationships, and biotic community structureBack to article page