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Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals.

Data from paper: Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. link to paper.

Natalie Cooper, Alexander L. Bond, Joshua L. Davis, Roberto Portela Miguez, Louise Tomsett, and Kristofer M. Helgen. 2019. Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences. 286, 20192025. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2019.2025.

The analyses require the two tidied datasets all-specimen-data.csv (unzipped) and all-extra-data.csv. Raw data sources used to build these are listed in the metadata or provided in ornamentation.csv. More details can be found at https://github.com/nhcooper123/sex-bias-museums.

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Natalie Cooper; Alexander Bond; Joshua L Davis; Roberto Portela Miguez et al. (2019). Sex biases in natural history collections of birds and mammals. [Data set]. Natural History Museum. https://doi.org/10.5519/0065209
Retrieved: 00:04 09 Nov 2024 (UTC) BibTeX

Additional Info

Field Value
Affiliation Natural History Museum
Primary contributors
Cooper, Natalie ( 0000-0003-4919-8655);
Bond, Alexander ( 0000-0003-2125-7238);
Davis, Joshua L;
Portela Miguez, Roberto ( 0000-0003-3094-9949);
Tomsett, Louise;
Helgen, Kristofer M
Other contributors
Temporal extent 1750-2018
Last updated 4 April 2022
Last resource update 4 April 2022 (all-extra-data.csv)
Created 8 April 2019
License Creative Commons Attribution