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UK Species Inventory - Master copy

A full copy of the UK Species Inventory, including all tables. This gives the ultimate in functionality but does require a copy of Microsoft Access (or similar database...
 Chris Raper; Charles Hussey Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution

UK Species Inventory - Simplified copy

An up to date export of the UK Species Inventory database in its simplified form. This dataset contains all names and all taxonomic concepts in 2 tables, which can be used to...
 Chris Raper Citizen Science License not specified

Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed Shearwaters

Introduction This image database is intended for the analysis of physical and colorimetric properties of plastic litter consumed by fledgling seabirds, but we hope that these...
 Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections

Data from paper: Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections. https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/142/3/308/7287291. Tara Wainwright,...
 Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell; Marc Jones; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

Data from the "Back to the water" project

Data from papers published as part of Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-323): Back to the water: macroevolutionary dynamics of secondarily aquatic tetrapods....
 Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

Lycianthes (Solanaceae) of Australia, New Guinea & Oceania

Specimen data used in the publication: Knapp S (2022) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific. PhytoKeys 209: 1-134,...
 Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Peru herbarium data for accurate IUCN threat assessments

Data downloaded from Solanaceae Source and the Begonia Resource Centre for use in analyses in the following paper: Delves, J., J. Albán-Castillo, A. Cano, E. Gagnon, C....
 Sandra Knapp; Peter Moonlight; Tiina Särkinen Collections Open Data Commons Attribution License

Twenty years of big plant genera

Moonlight, PW, Baldaszti, L, Cardoso, D, Elliott, A, Särkinen, T, Knapp, S (2024) Twenty years of big plant genera. Proceedings of the Royal Soiety B 291: 20240702,...
 Peter Moonlight; Ludwig Baldaszti; Domingos Cardoso; Alan Elliott; Tiina Särkinen; Sandra Knapp Research Other (Attribution)

Ludlow Museum Fossils in Shropshire Project data

The Fossils in Shropshire project dataset includes collections data and images of geological specimens from Shropshire Museums collections. The collection is principally...
 Daniel Lockett; Jacqueline Tweddle Collections CC0-1.0

Malvales Digitisation

The Malvales collection comprises the records of all the sheet-mounted material at the Natural History Museum, London at the time of project completion (June 2022). Each...
 Jovita C. Yesilyurt; Larissa Welton; Krisztina Lohonya; Peter Wing et al. Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Micropalaeontology student thesis collection

The NHM holds micropalaeontology thesis slide collections from the University of Hull, University College London, Imperial College London and University College of Wales,...
 Library and Archives Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Part-processed Indonesian Fossil Specimens

Collections of marine invertebrates from the Miocene and Pliocene of East Kalimantan Indonesia that have not been identified to specific taxa so cannot be added to the NHMUK...
 Kenneth Johnson Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Earthworm Watch data

Cleaned and anonymised data from the Earthworm Watch citizen science project run by the Natural History Museum, London and Earthwatch Institute (Europe) April 2016 to August...
 Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Function and ecology of Solanum underground organs

Datasets used for analyses in the publication: Gagnon E, Baldaszti L, Moonlight P, Knapp S, Lehmann C, Särkinen T (2023) Functional and ecological diversification of underground...
 Edeline Gagnon; Tiina Särkinen; Sandra Knapp Research Creative Commons CCZero

Plymouth University (Prof. Malcolm Hart) Microfossil Collection

This is a collections level description of 12 cabinets from the research collection of Malcolm hart, donated in 2022 to the NHM.
 Natural History Museum Collections

Unexpected trans-Tasman species diversity of the bryozoan family Horneridae (...

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 Abigail Smith; Peter Batson; Andrea Waeschenbach; Paul Taylor; Helen Jenkins; Dennis Gordon Research License not specified

Global species hotspots and COI barcoding cold spots of marine Gastropoda

This compressed repository contains the processed datasets of species occurrence records (from GBIF) that were taxon-matched (WoRMS/LifeWatch) and analysed in the manuscript...
 Andrew Torres; Owen Wangensteen; Willem Renema; Christopher Meyer et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Ray Bate Collection of mainly Cretaceous ostracods from West Africa

The dataset describes a named taxonomic reference collection of 311 slides of individual specimens as well as a listing of related assemblage slides covering 4 slide cabinets....
 Giles Miller; Jamie Rolt Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal both underestimation and overestimatio...

Among direct-developing rain frogs of the genus Craugastor is a clade of 19 described species (bocourti series) that occur in Mexico and northern Central America. Many of these...
 Jeffrey Streicher; John Wiens; Merlijn Jocqué; Uri García-Vázquez; Eric Smith Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database V1.1

This is an updated version of the 2016 release of the PREDICTS database. Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. One source...
 Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC BY-NC 4.0

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