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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

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

Butterflies and Moths of the World

There 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...
Natural History Museum; Brian Pitkin; Paul Jenkins Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

NHM Bird Collection Type Specimens

Summary 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,...
Natural History Museum; Natural History Museum; Rachel L. M. Warren; C. J. O. Harrison et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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

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...
Victoria Burton; Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Catalogue of Meteorites

The Catalogue of Meteorites is the world taxonomic database of all meteorite falls and finds recorded up to June 2002. The first edition was published in 1847 and consisted of...
Monica Grady Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

ALICE test images

Images used to test different software pipelines for label extraction.
Benjamin Price; Steen Dupont; Louise Allan; Vladimir Blagoderov et al. Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminife...

The size structure of plankton communities is an important determinant of their functions in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have quantified how organism size varies...
Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard Collections Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata

Body size is highly correlated with physiological traits, fitness, and trophic interactions. These traits are subject to change if there are widespread reductions of body size...
Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Centipede venom evolution

These are 6 assembled venom gland transcriptomes from 5 species of centipedes. They are made available as supplementary material that is part of the following paper: Jenner, R....
Ronald Jenner Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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

Eggplant wild relative plastome phylogeny

The data set comprises the original data files and scripts used to generate analyses in the publication Aubriot X, Knapp S, Syfert MM, Poczai P, Buerki S (2018) Shedding new...
Xavier Aubriot Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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