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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

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

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

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database [SUPERSEDED]

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS VERSION OF THE DATABASE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. The new version...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Linnaeus's Butterfly Type Specimens

Introduction This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they...
Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble Research Creative Commons Attribution

NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for Australia

This data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in Australia. Each location Lat and Long has...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Herbarium of Samuel Dale M.D. (1659-1739)

Samuel Dale was born in 1659. He was apprenticed as an apothecary before moving to practice in Braintree, Essex in 1680. There, he befriended John Ray and began to pursue an...
Mark Carine Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Artefacts

Cultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

South American morelloid Solanum

Occurrence and specimen data used in the publication: Knapp S, T. Särkinen & G.E Barboza (2023) A revision of the South American species of the Morelloid clade (Solanum L.;...
Sandra Knapp; Tiina Särkinen; Gloria E. Barboza Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

CHROMREP

Data 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...
Marcello Mezzasalma; Jeffrey Streicher; Fabio Maria Guarino; Marc Jones et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants

Please 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...
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...
Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Rachel Bates; Jessica Borer et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data

This 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...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Specimens from Sloane's voyage to Jamaica

Hans 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...
Charles E Jarvis Collections License not specified

A guide to lichens on twigs

Welcome 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...
Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project

Project 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...
Natural History Museum Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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...
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...
Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. Research CC-BY-NC-4.0

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