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The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database [SUPERSEDED]

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS VERSION OF THE DATABASE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. The new version...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data

This dataset contains site-level summaries of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Global map of the Biodiversity Intactness Index, from Newbold et al. (2016) S...

This is the data used to plot figure S4 in Newbold et al. (2016) “Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment”, Science...
Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Images for the evaluation of automatic image segmentation algorithms

A collection of 804 jpeg images, each of one or more objects from the Natural History Museum's collections. All images are 4,096 pixels in width. These images can be used to...
Lawrence Hudson; Vladimir Blagoderov; Blanca Huertas; Laurence Livermore et al. Collections CC-BY-4.0

Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s

This is a collection of 1481 images that were made by Eileen Graham between 1966 and 1968 showing coral reefs from the northern coast of Jamaica. Most of the image were made of...
Kenneth Johnson CC-BY-4.0

HyPhas

Hymenoptera parasites of the Phasmida (stick insects)
Edward Baker Research CC-BY-4.0

Mark My Bird

The Mark My Bird dataset comprises 3D scans of bird bills from the ornithology collection of the Natural History Museum, London. Mark My Bird is part of a European Research...
Gavin H Thomas; Jen A Bright; Chris R Cooney Research CC-BY-4.0

Cicadas of India

Data supporting: Price B, Allan E, Marathe K, Sarkar V, Simon C, Kunte K (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an...
Benjamin Price; Louise Allan; Kiran Marathe; V Sarkar; Chris Simon; K Kunte Research CC-BY-4.0

Dataset collated for meta-analysis of the Natural History Museum's grounds

This dataset contains surveyed estimates of species richness of invertebrates and plants in different habitat types, or habitats of different areas. Data was collated from...
Helen Phillips; Sandra Knapp; Andy Purvis Research CC-BY-4.0

NightLife

Circuit board designs for the NightLife project to create a cheap, robust and open hardware LED light trap for aquatic insects, and raw data from the NightLife publication.
Edward Baker; Benjamin Price Research CC-BY-4.0

Some Useful Equations and Tables for the Digitisation of Taped Sound Collections

This document contains conversion tables and equations that have been useful while digitising the Natural History Museum’s collection of recorded wildlife sound as part of the...
Edward Baker Collections CC-BY-4.0

BioAcoustica: Talks: International Congress Entomology

Recorded talks from ICE
Edward Baker Collections CC-BY-4.0

Schizorhiza stromeri (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes) rostrum with saw-teeth

This movie shows the developing saw-teeth along the cartilaginous rostrum of the Cretaceous batoid ray Schizorhiza stromeri. 3D rendering performed with Avizo.
Moya Meredith Smith; Alex Riley; Gareth J Fraser; Charlie Underwood et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Notes From Nature

Contributor statistics from the Museum's Notes From Nature Ornithological project, transcribing bird register information from 1837 to 1990.
Tim Conyers CC-BY-4.0

IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator (Annotated building ins...

Dupont et al. 2015. IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator. Supplement.
Steen Dupont; Benjamin Price; Vladimir Blagoderov Research CC-BY-4.0

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