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Dataset Resource Number of records
Wallace and Banks drawers Drawer-level images 85
Join the Dots collection-level descriptions JtD collection-level records 2,868
Join the Dots collection-level descriptions Data dictionary 35
Collection specimens Specimens 5,163,570
Catalogue of Meteorites Catalogue of Meteorites (MetCat) 26,474
Clifford Herbarium Clifford Herbarium Specimens 3,461
Beetle Drawer Scans Coleoptera locations barcodes metadata 1,943
The NHM Fossil Lithistida Collection Fossil Lithistida Collection 3,628
NATRICINE Natricine-natural-history-data.csv 246
NATRICINE Natricine-natural-history-data-references.csv 197
NATRICINE missing_taxa_data.csv 13
NATRICINE metadata-data-natricine-LM.csv 1,346
NATRICINE linear-species-means.csv 206
NATRICINE snakepca.csv 206
NATRICINE sliders-natricine-landmarks.csv 29
NATRICINE metadata-natricine-GMM.csv 240
NATRICINE snake-data-pca-GMM.csv 123
Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis Arabic and Persian plant names in the Codex Vindobonensis 749
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. all-extra-data.csv 17,347
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. Raw ornamentation data for mammals 4,791
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. all-specimen-data.csv 2,496,328
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. Szekely et al 2014 ASR data 187
Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. Generic-level specimen data 716,133
Tropical Asian spiny Solanum SM2 Tropical Asian specimens 6,229
Tropical Asian spiny Solanum SM3 All specimens 12,519
Index Lot collection Index Lots 887,851
Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders Specimen data 127
Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders Spectral data from lenses 398
Lepidosaur bite-force data Raw bite-force, body size and head dimensions data from the literature 354
Lepidosaur bite-force data Bite force and ecological data for analyses 334
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf.csv 164
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf_sd.csv 164
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf_males.csv 132
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf_females.csv 112
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf_sd_males.csv 132
Lepidosaur bite-force data max_bf_sd_females.csv 112
Lepidosaur bite-force data taxonomy-data.csv 44
Diversity and evolution of amphibian pupil shapes Amphibian pupil data 1,293
Artefacts Artefacts 53
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands mtDNA PCA 37
Survival of climate warming through niche shifts: Evidence from frogs on tropical islands nuDNA PCA 23
Eye‐body allometry across biphasic ontogeny in anuran amphibians Morphological data 723
Eye‐body allometry across biphasic ontogeny in anuran amphibians Trait data 12
Amphibian taxonomy: early 21st century case studies Amphibian taxonomy R input files 16
Darwin's Fossil Mammals Darwin Fossils Spreadsheet 97
New species of Athenaea from Brazil Specimens Rodrigues et al Athenaea 46
The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summaries for the year 1970 to 2050 under various scenarios long_data.csv 376,992
Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens Linnean Butterfly Types 119
Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical and subtropical forests BII_AnnualAverages.zip 1,488
Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical and subtropical forests landuse_AnnualAverages.zip 1,488
Sampaio_Rhinophis 12s_pdistances 42
Sampaio_Rhinophis 16s_pdistances 42
Sampaio_Rhinophis nd4_pdistances 17
UK Species Inventory - Simplified copy UK Species Inventory - Simplified copy 325,065
Pangolin georeferencing overlaps_landuse.csv 162
Pangolin georeferencing overlaps_hpd.csv 162
Pangolin georeferencing overlaps_combined.csv 677
Pangolin georeferencing specimens-extents.csv 677
Pangolin georeferencing specimens-points.csv 677
A biological nano-foam: the wall of coniferous bisaccate pollen persistent_links_analysed_specimens.csv 6
Lyell Collection - List of specimens Lyell Collection with identifications and specimen numbers 710
Dinosaur evolutionary rates were not in decline prior to the K-Pg boundary Nodecount and time elapsed data for each tree 13,424
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Odontocete cochlear landmark data 69
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Odontocete cochleae linear measurement data 69
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Metadata for analyses 69
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Raw cochleae measurement data 73
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Sliders for landmarks 351
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Landmarks for NMB10131 362
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae MANOVAs for all specimen combinations 262,124
Intraspecific variation in harbour porpoise cochleae Data on specimens of Phocoena phocoena 18
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_bias_foram_counts.csv 35
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_bias_size_data.csv 2,873
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_bias_size_relabund.csv 65
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_Buckley_size_data.csv 3,799
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_etal_TableS1.csv 53
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment Rillo_etal_TableS3.csv 11
Morelloid Solanum species from Argentina All morelloid Solanum from Argentina 5,002
Morelloid Solanum species from Argentina New species of morelloid Solanum from Argentina 151
New Solanum from the Pacific New Pacific Solanums 267
Diversification analyses in Solanum Average diversification rates from BAMM 1,169
Maddock_rostratus Morphology 506
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to Jamaica Sloane Herbarium 1,279
Clayton Herbarium Clayton Herbarium 904
An influence of environmental variability on insects wing shape: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet-A.cyanea.csv 209
Mesocosms Datasheet-Chironomus piger (wing length).csv 191
Mesocosms Datasheet-Tanytarsus nemorosus (wing length).csv 905
Mesocosms Datasheet-A.monilis (wing length).csv 256
Mesocosms Datasheet-Polypedilum nubeculosum (wing length).csv 49
Mesocosms Datasheet-Polypedilum sorden (wing length).csv 87
Mesocosms Datasheet-Procladius crassinervis (wing length).csv 488
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Species-analysis (interspecific).csv 5,331
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Aeshna cyanea-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 179
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Aeshna grandis-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 53
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Aeshna mixta-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 152
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Anax imperator-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 68
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Brachytron pratense-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 194
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Calopteryx splendens-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 684
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Calopteryx virgo-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 838
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Coenagrion puella-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 530
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Ischnura elegans-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 730
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Lestes sponsa-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 581
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Libellula quadrimaculata-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 235
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Pyrrhosoma nymphula-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 542
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Sympetrum striolatum-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 482
Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata Datasheet_Somatochlora metallica-Right(UK)-AICF.csv 64
Georeferenced UK social wasps GeorefUKwasps.csv 1,651
Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s Image Sites 1,481
Coral reef imagery by Eileen Graham of Jamaica in the 1960s Image Collection 1,481
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Specimen metadata 48
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Sliders for landmark data 359
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae PC Scores for analyses 48
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Wheatsheaf analyses - green regime 48
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Wheatsheaf analyses - purple regime 48
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Wheatsheaf analyses - yellow regime 48
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on diet - green regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on diet - purple regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on diet - yellow regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 1 - green regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 2 - green regime 4
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 1 - purple regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 2 - purple regime 4
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 1 - yellow regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on dive type 2 - yellow regime 4
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 1 - green regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 2 - green regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 1 - purple regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 2 - purple regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 1 - yellow regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on feeding type 2 - yellow regime 2
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 1 - green regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 2 - green regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 1 - purple regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 2 - purple regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 1 - yellow regime 3
Convergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae Data for Chi Square test on habitat type 2 - yellow regime 3
UK Georeferenced Master Sites iCollections Project Georeferencing 7,216
What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years Data for analyses 4,138
Historical UK cetacean strandings dataset (1913-1989) UK cetacean strandings 1913-1989 4,311
Ludlow Museum Fossils in Shropshire Project data Fossils in Shropshire 2,617
Hermann Herbarium Hermann Herbarium 1,915
Morelloid solanum North and Central America and the Caribbean Appendix 3 searchable file all collections 20,368
Morelloid solanum North and Central America and the Caribbean Appendix 3 searchable excel file all specimens 0
Old World morelloids Specimens OW morelloids 7,000
Old World morelloids OW Morelloid collection events 7,000
Old World morelloids OW Morelloid specimens 13,344
Keys to African Solanum African solanum taxa 0
Keys to African Solanum African solanum specimens Excel 0
Keys to African Solanum African solanum specimens 44
Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera Eric Robinson Ostracod Collection slide listing 0
The former British Petroleum microfossil collection Former British Petroleum microfossil collection data 5,110
Notes from Nature crowd sourcing raw data set Notes from Nature raw transcription data set 332,144
ABYSSLINE Echino_ms_DwC_via_bdj_210116 34
HyPhas Bibliography of Amiseginae and Loboscelidiinae 68
Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera 1,742
Psylloidea phylogenomics mitogenome partitions 6
Psylloidea phylogenomics Table_S10_AHE_read_assembly_details_31_taxa 31
Fossil and recent ostracod collections Fossil and recent ostracod collections 5,086
Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM London Chagos Coral Collection at NHM spreadsheet 6,451
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor Exploration Can Provide a Late 19th Century Baseline of the Marine Environment si_table_rel_abund 42
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor Exploration Can Provide a Late 19th Century Baseline of the Marine Environment si_table_raw_counts 39
Baleen stable isotope data d13C and d15N stable isotope data from rorqual baleen 563
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Outputs of movement model simulations 0
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Smoothed d13C values from top 10% of model simulations 10,185
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Behavioural phase two Top 10% of model simulations 155,136
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Behavioural phase 2 bottom 10% of model simulations 153,282
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_R2 values comparing model simulations to real data 1,049
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Maximum latitudes of top 10% of model simulations 209
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Maximum latitudes of top 10% of model simulations 209
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Standard deviation of latitudes of top 10% of model simulations 209
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Top 10% of model simulations 313,533
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Bottom 10% of model simulations 309,968
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Atlantic Ocean residency model simulation outputs 21,900
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Canaries residency model simulation outputs 21,900
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Irish Sea residency model simulation outputs 21,900
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Norway/Barents Sea residency model simulation outputs 21,900
Baleen stable isotope data paper01_Cape Verde/Mauritania upwelling area residencey model simulation outputs 21,900
Baleen stable isotope data Baleen stable isotope data for Pacific blue whales 359
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility Participants identifications 47
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility Participant metadata 21
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility Specimen sizes 300
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility ANN SST data 58
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility ForCenS dataset 4,205
Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility Confusion matrices 24
Insect Pollinators Archive Insect Pollinator Initiative 32,777
Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection Ocean Bottom Deposit Collection 28,254
Xenophyophores Xenophyophores summary data 4
Fenton et al Reproducibility Participants identifications 100
Fenton et al Reproducibility Participant metadata 23
Fenton et al Reproducibility Species metadata 42
Fenton et al Reproducibility Specimen sizes 100
Fenton et al Reproducibility Species list 44
Fenton et al Reproducibility Confusion matrices 30
Fenton et al Reproducibility NHM specimen details 100
Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil Brazilian Black Nightshades 1,241
Conodont collection database Conodont collection database 132
Jins_Uropeltidae Morphological data 37
Eggplant wild relative plastome phylogeny File 1 Locality data eggplant WRs 1,222
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Sliders for odontocete crania landmarks 8
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Sliders for odontocete mandible landmarks 2
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Metadata on odontocete crania landmarks 77
Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes Metadata on odontocete mandibles landmarks 67
Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area on site-level biodiversity Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area on site-level biodiversity 786
Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection Former Aberystwyth Microfossil Collection 291
NHM Interactions Bank NHM Interactions Bank 350,346
Elaeagnifolium clade (Solanum) Elaeagnifolium Clade specimens 2,671
African spiny Solanum Vorontsova & Knapp (2016) African spiny solanum 12,923
Eggplant gap analysis data Eggplant_gap_dataset 6,554
Solanum insanum Solanum insanum specimen list 424
Solanum ANS Clade African Non-Spiny Solanum specimens 2,878
Mark My Bird MarkMyBird_manifest.csv 2,028
Robin Whatley's type and figured ostracods at the NHM A list of Prof. Robin Whatley's type and figured papers relating to material housed at the NHM 129
The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database Description of data extract columns 69
The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database Data references in CSV format 490
Duxbury collection database Duxbury Collection 304
Recent foram diversity Full MARGO dataset 3,496
Recent foram diversity Modelling dataset 2,215
Cicadas of India Regional Species List 3
Cicadas of India Regional Species List (version 2) 33
Dataset collated for meta-analysis of the Natural History Museum's grounds Biodiversity Estimates 464
Crop weeds of Paraguay Crop Weeds of Paraguay 410
Site-level data used in Gray, Hill et al. (2016) Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide. Nature Communications 7:12306. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ncomms12306 PREDICTS_WDPA data 6,531
Recent and Eocene planktonic foraminiferal diversity Recent planktonic foraminiferal diversity 2,389
Recent and Eocene planktonic foraminiferal diversity Eocene planktonic foraminiferal diversity 125
Recent and Eocene planktonic foraminiferal diversity ID references 96
Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201 SiteData.csv 18,659
Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science 353, 281-291, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2201 JaccardSimilarities.csv 5
Burrow casts of the mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802 NHM Specimens relating to sound recordings of Gryllotalpidae 20
Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Lifebuoy Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East Lifebuoy Lake 90
Data supporting 'Late Holocene environmental change in arctic western Siberia.' Putorana Plateau GYXO 20
Data supporting 'Late Holocene environmental change in arctic western Siberia.' Putorana Plateau PONE 17
Data supporting 'Late Holocene environmental change in arctic western Siberia.' Putorana Plateau PTHE 19
Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Pechora Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East Pechora Lake 59
Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Olive-backed Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East Olive-backed Lake 66
Data supporting 'The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia.' neer-ts.csv 81
Bluebell Survey 2012 Bluebell records 2012 0
Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles - Data Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles [Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford] (amended 19/2/2016) 6,750
Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles - Data Agassiz et/ al (2014) Lepidoptera checklist (first draft) 4,073
NightLife NightLife Raw Data 3
Tropical Asian spiny solanums (2016) GPSlocations_TropicalAsianSolanum_Figure2_Aubriot_et_al 1,115
Tropical Asian spiny solanums (2016) GPSlocations_TropicalAsianSolanum_Figure2_Aubriot_et_al_CSV 1,115
Solanum section Aculeigerum Specimens examined for monograph of Solanum section Aculeigerum 716
Specimens of the Dulcamaroid Clade of Solanum Dulcamaroid Clade specimens 8,956
Chemistry samples Central System carbonate clays ICP-AES of clays 68
Chemistry samples Central System carbonate clays ICP-AES of whole rock 128
Pushing the limits – two new species of Pteromalus (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) from Central Europe with remarkable morphology Baur Pteromalus briani janstai quantitative character matrix 17
Pushing the limits – two new species of Pteromalus (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae) from Central Europe with remarkable morphology Baur Pteromalus briani janstai qualitative character matrix 5
Notes From Nature Contributor statistics 331,945
PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data Site-level summaries 13,337
Crowdsourcing the collection Transcriptions 195
Supporting information for: Collins RA, Britz R, Rüber L (2015) genbank_scrape.csv 249
Supporting information for: Collins RA, Britz R, Rüber L (2015) genbank_this_study.csv 44
Total 12,695,524