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Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable SubstancesHans Sloane’s Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances originally consisted of 12,752 botanical specimens, most housed in small glass and wooden boxes. Sealed inside...
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Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Join the Dots collection-level descriptionsThe records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Peruvian herbarium data for accurate IUCN threat assessmentsData downloaded from Solanaceae Source and the Begonia Resource Centre for use in analyses in the following paper:
Delves, J. et al. (in preparation) Small and in-country...
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Sandra Knapp; Peter Moonlight; Tiina Särkinen | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
CHROMREPData from the CHROMREP project led by Marcello Mezzasalma (m.mezzasalma@gmail.com), funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action.
This data was used in the paper:
Marcello...
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Marcello Mezzasalma; Jeffrey Streicher; Fabio Maria Guarino; Marc Jones et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
The herbarium specimens collected by Alexander Anderson (1748 – 1811)Alexander Anderson, a Scottish surgeonand botanist, served as superintendent at the St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which was established in 1765 and was the first Botanical...
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Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Christina Welch | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran HostplantsPlease note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the...
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Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández | Research | Creative Commons CCZero |
Release of data added to the PREDICTS database (November 2022)This dataset comprises 1,040,752 measurements, collated from 9,544 sampling locations in 46 countries and representing 10,635 species. The data was collated from 115 existing...
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Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Rachel Bates; Jessica Borer et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
British and Irish butterflies and moths: The Cockayne collectionThis collection was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell collection with the many other important British and Irish Lepidoptera collections...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
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 |
The 2016 release of the PREDICTS databaseA dataset of 3,250,404 measurements, collated from 26,114 sampling locations in 94 countries and representing 47,044 species. The data were collated from 480 existing spatial...
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Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. | Research | CC-BY-4.0 |
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 |