Florida Museum of Natural History
Guralnick Lab
Led by Robert Guralnick · Florida Museum of Natural History (Biodiversity Informatics)
What we study
The Guralnick Lab combines data from large museum collections to understand how biodiversity changes over space and time, including how climate and landscape change affect species now and through Earth's history. Projects include a database of records for nearly 20,000 butterfly species and a platform linking animal records across biological and archaeological databases.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large‐scale phenology labeling for herbarium specimens
2026 · Applications in Plant Sciences
Develops a machine learning tool to label flowers in herbarium specimens.
- Molecular phylogeny and updated classification of jewel damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera: Chlorocyphidae)
2026 · Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny
Builds a DNA-based family tree for jewel damselflies using 92 genes.
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- Caribbean Islands facilitated the colonization of Western Hemisphere barn owls, yet experienced rampant extinction
2026 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Uses DNA from fossils and museum specimens to track barn owl evolution in the Caribbean.
- Mimus polyglottos (Northern Mockingbird) vocal mimicry reflects variation in species richness and composition along an urbanization gradient
2026 · Ornithological Applications
Tests if urbanization changes mimicry in mockingbirds by studying vocal behavior.
- Local environment shapes habitat suitability of the endangered mint Dicerandra cornutissima
2026 · Conservation Science and Practice
Uses fine-scale data to model habitat for an endangered Florida mint.
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