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Datasets

11 datasets found

Contributors:
Benjamin Price

DatasetAuthorTypeLicence

ALICE test images

Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.
Benjamin Price; Steen Dupont; Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

An influence of environmental variability on insects wing shape: a case stud...

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Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price Research Creative Commons Attribution

Mesocosms

Chironomids are a useful group for investigating body size responses to warming temperature, due to their high local abundance, sensitivity to environmental change and trophic...
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Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price Research Creative Commons Attribution

Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata

Body size is highly correlated with physiological traits, fitness, and trophic interactions. These traits are subject to change if there are widespread reductions of body size...
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Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Platypleurini phylogeny

Data Supporting: Out of Africa? A dated molecular phylogeny of the cicada tribe Platypleurini Schmidt (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a focus on African genera and the genus...
  • ZIP
Benjamin Price; David C Marshall; Nigel P Barker; Chris Simon; Martin H Villet Research Creative Commons CCZero

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...
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  • XLSX
Benjamin Price; Louise Allan; Kiran Marathe; V Sarkar; Chris Simon; K Kunte 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.
  • Gerber
  • Fritzing
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Edward Baker; Benjamin Price Research CC-BY-4.0

BioAcoustica

A worldwide collection of scientific recordings of animal sounds from the Natural History Museum and our collaborators.
  • ZIP
Edward Baker; Benjamin Price; BioAcoustica Contributors Research License not specified

Data supporting the identity of the 180yr old Chrysoperla carnea lectotype

Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood analysis and resulting tree files. Data supports: Price et al., 2015. PLoS One.
  • nexus
  • TXT
Benjamin Price; Charles Henry; Andrea Hall; Atsushi Mochizuki; Peter Duelli; Stephen J Brooks Research ODC-BY-1.0

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

Dupont et al. 2015. IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator. Supplement.
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Steen Dupont; Benjamin Price; Vladimir Blagoderov 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...
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Lawrence Hudson; Vladimir Blagoderov; BLANCA HUERTAS; Laurence Livermore et al. Collections CC-BY-4.0

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