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Islam, S.: Futures of Biodiversity Monitoring: Linking eDNA with high-quality reference materials, World Biodiversity Forum 2026, Davos, Switzerland, 14–19 Jun 2026, WBF2026-924, https://doi.org/10.5194/wbf2026-924, 2026.
flowchart TD
A["Physical specimens from<br/>Natural history collections"]
B["Digitisation, imaging,<br/>georeferencing"]
C["Digital specimen<br/>FAIR Digital Object"]
D["Link data"]
E["Enriched Digital Specimen:<br/>Serve as foundation for<br/>creating reference libraries"]
F["Curation pipeline: annotation,<br/>quality control"]
G["Curated reference library<br/>Ranked and quality-assessed<br/>reference sequences"]
H["Federated metadata exposure<br/>and discovery"]
I["New eDNA data matching<br/>against curated libraries"]
A --> B
B --> C
C --> D
D --> E
E --> F
F --> G
G --> H
I --> H
H --> I
I --> G
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