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CT scans of Challenger SedimentsCT scans of HMS Challenger sediments
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Butterflies and Moths of the WorldThere are currently an estimated 112,000 to 165,000 described species of butterflies and moths (Scoble, 1999) in nearly 24,000 available and objective replacement genus-group...
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Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure dataThis 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...
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Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
Specimens from Sloane's voyage to JamaicaHans Sloane was a seventeenth-century doctor and collector. He amassed a vast amount of material that eventually formed the basis of the British Museum. In 1881, Sloane's...
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Charles E Jarvis | Collections | License not specified |
NHM Bird Collection Type SpecimensSummary
Search and browse the bird type specimens held in the collection of the Natural History Museum, or download and re-use the dataset describing the NHM's bird holotypes,...
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Natural History Museum; Natural History Museum; Rachel L. M. Warren; C. J. O. Harrison et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles - DataAn Excel spreadsheet containing the current scientific names & codes from the "Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles" by Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford. This has...
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David Agassiz; S D Beavan; Robert J Heckford | Citizen Science | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
A guide to lichens on twigsWelcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the...
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Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Linnaean Plant Name Typification ProjectProject Summary
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) introduced the consistent use of binomial names for both plants and animals, validly publishing over 9,000 plant names. Since 1981 the...
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Natural History Museum | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Data for soil and above-ground assemblages from Burton et al.The site-level data frame and code to reproduce models in Burton et al. Land use and soil characteristics affect soil organisms differently from above-ground assemblages.
Human...
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Victoria Burton; Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Samantha L L Hill et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
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Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
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...
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Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
Site-level data used in Gray, Hill et al. (2016) Local biodiversity is higher...This is the site-level data used to analyses whether sampled biodiversity differs between sites inside and outside protected areas. These data were obtained from the November...
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Claudia L Gray; Samantha L L Hill; Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson et al. | Research | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land...This is the site-level data used in Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science, and the...
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Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. | Research | CC-BY-NC-4.0 |
NATRICINEData from the NATRICINE project led by V.Deepak (veerappandeepak@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action.
These data have been used in several papers:
Deepak....
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Veerappan Deepak; Natalie Cooper; David J Gower | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Catalogue of MeteoritesThe Catalogue of Meteorites is the world taxonomic database of all meteorite falls and finds recorded up to June 2002.
The first edition was published in 1847 and consisted of...
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Monica Grady | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Bound Volumes and Exsiccatae in the Botanical Collections at the Natural Hist...This dataset provides an overview of the bound volumes and exsiccatae preserved in the botanical collections of the Natural History Museum. For each of the 1320 items accounted...
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Norbert Holstein; Mark Carine; Edgley Cesar; Len Ellis et al. | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Morphological study of Bombus flavescens’s visual organsList of specimens, including species, collection (CUNHM= Chulalongkorn University Natural History Museum, Bangkok, Thailand; KKIC= Kasetsart Kamphaeng Saen Insect Collection,...
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Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Southeast Asian Bumblebee Specimen DatabaseList of Southeast Asian bumblebee specimens (the CT database), including CT ID, collection (BEEP=Bee Protection Laboratory, Department of Biology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang...
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Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Bombus flavescens Specimen DatabaseList of Bombus flavescens specimens (the FLA database) including FLA ID, collection (MNHN= Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; NHMUK= Natural History Museum,...
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Chawatat Thanoosing; Alfried Vogler; Paul H Williams | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Host-Parasite databaseIn 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today is the Parasitic worms group, devised a Host-Parasite Catalogue in which he recorded the host-parasite associations published in...
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David I Gibson; Eileen Harris; Rod Bray; Charles Hussey | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |