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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
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... CSV	Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis	Citizen Science	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
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.... CSV	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... CSV ZIP	Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al.	Research	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... CSV PDF	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... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum	Research	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... CSV	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... R CSV	Rungtip Wonglersak; Phillip Fenberg; Peter Langdon; Stephen J Brooks; Benjamin Price	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... CSV	Natural History Museum	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

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