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Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera

In 2006, Eric Robinson, formerly of University College London, donated his ostracod collection to the Natural History Museum. This collection contains slides of named taxa and...
Giles Miller Collections License not specified

The former British Petroleum microfossil collection

The database represents the microfossil well-run collection resulting from British Petroleum's exploration activities since the 1950s. It holds details of material from over...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Notes from Nature crowd sourcing raw data set

Raw transcription data from the Notes from Nature crowd sourcing site for the ornithology collections of the NHM
Natural History Museum License not specified

ABYSSLINE

Specimen data from the ABYSSLINE project for the Natural History Museum biodiversity survey of the UK-1 polymetallic nodule exploration claim zone, central Pacific abyss.
Adrian Glover Research CC-BY-NC-4.0

HyPhas

Hymenoptera parasites of the Phasmida (stick insects)
Edward Baker Research CC-BY-4.0

Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera

The Henry Buckley Collection of Planktonic Foraminifera at the Natural History Museum in London (NHMUK) consists of 1,665 single-taxon slides housing almost 24,000 individuals...
Marina Costa Rillo Research Creative Commons Attribution

Psylloidea phylogenomics

Resolving the psyllid tree of life and understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological...
Diana Percy Research Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

Fossil and recent ostracod collections

A dataset of fossil and recent ostracods
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...

Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

Baleen stable isotope data

This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the...
Clive N. Trueman; Andrew Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Xenophyophores

Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover Collections License not specified

Fenton et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera".
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil

Dataset of specimen and localities of Brazilian species of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades)
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Conodont collection database

The database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes

Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090...
Charlotte E Page; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area...

Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both...
Helen Phillips; John M Halley; J Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Andy Purvis Research Creative Commons Attribution

Former Aberystwyth microfossil collection

A catalogue of information about discrete collections within the Former Aberystwyth University Micropalaeontology Collection, now housed the Natural History Museum. The...
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

NHM Interactions Bank

A combined ecological interactions dataset from various projects at the Natural History Museum, London. The data is aggregated from a number of individual projects hosted in the...
Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Elaeagnifolium clade (Solanum)

Data set of specimens used in the publication: Knapp, S., E. Sagona, A.K.Z. Carbonell and F. Chiarini (2017) A revision of the Solanum elaeagnifolium clade (Elaeagnifolium...
Sandra Knapp Research ODC-BY-1.0

African spiny Solanum

Specimen data used in the revision African spiny Solanum species for the publication by Vorontsova MS and Knapp S (2016) A revision of the "spiny solanums", Solanum subgenus...
Sandra Knapp Collections ODbL-1.0

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