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Hans Sloane's Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable SubstancesHans Sloane’s Collection of Vegetables and Vegetable Substances originally consisted of 12,752 botanical specimens, most housed in small glass and wooden boxes. Sealed inside...
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Victoria Pickering; Charles Jarvis; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
What predicts gene flow during speciation? The relative roles of time, space,...The processes that restrict gene flow between populations are fundamental to speciation. Here, we develop a simple framework for studying whether divergence in morphology,...
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Jeffrey Streicher; Shea Lambert; Fausto Méndez de la Cruz; Norberto Martínez-Méndez et al. | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Ipomoea tiliacea (Wild.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae) seeds stranded on the south-...Alignment of 399bp fragment of the nuclear ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer region comprising 132 samples of the Ipomoea batatas group, used by Minchin, Griffin and Carine...
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Dan Minchin; Claire Griffin; Mark Carine | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by The Natural History Museum, Lo...A temporally limited release of The Biodiversity Intactness Index developed by the Natural History Museum, London, v2.1.1 is made available here for non-commercial use under a...
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Adriana De Palma; Sara Contu; Gareth E Thomas; Connor Duffin; Sabine Nix; Andy Purvis | Research | Other (Non-Commercial) |
Hans Sloane’s collection of dried plants (the Sloanean Herbarium): an inventoryFrom the early 1680s until his death in 1753, London physician Hans Sloane amassed a vast collection of objects, among which were the 121,000 plant specimens that formed his...
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Brad Scott; Victoria Pickering; Mark Carine | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Annotations in Hans Sloane's copy of John Ray's Historia Plantarum (1686-1704)John Ray’s Historia Plantarum is a three-volume work in Latin comprising three volumes. Volumes I and II were published in 1686 and 1688, and contain approximately 1,000 pages...
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Victoria Pickering; Jawad Sadek; Foteini Valeonti; Shirley Chang et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Ocean Bottom Deposits CollectionThe Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand...
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Giles Miller | Collections | License not specified |
Submerged corridors of ancient gene flow in an insular caecilian amphibianMany island archipelagos sit on shallow continental shelves. During the Pleistocene, these islands were often connected as global sea levels dropped following glaciation. Given...
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Miranda Sherlock; Mark Wilkinson; Simon Maddock; Julia Day; Jeffrey Streicher | Research | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Plants from Fort St. George India collected by Samuel Browne in 1697Samuel Browne (d. 1698) was a surgeon employed by the English East India Company (EIC) at Fort St. George, Madras (now Chennai) in India. In 1697, Browne sent a herbarium of...
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Ranee Om Prakash | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Asia (excluding New Guinea)Collection event and specimen datasets used for the publication: Knapp S (2024) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in tropical Asia. PhytoKeys 245:1-1-6,...
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Sandra Knapp | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
NHM Botanical Types Georeferenced for ChinaThis data contains the georeferenced locations of the Botanical TYPES held at the Natural History Museum that have been collected in China. Each location Lat and Long has been...
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Malcolm G Penn; Krisztina Lohonya | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
"Join the dots" collections assessment exerciseThe files submitted here form the backbone to a 2018 collections assessment exercise at the Natural History Museum and support a methodology paper submitted to Museum Management...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
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Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Annual country-level summaries of BII and land use (2001-2012) for tropical a...Here we provide machine-readable (csv files) and human readable (pdf files) tables of country, subregion and region averages for the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) and land...
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Adriana De Palma; Andrew Hoskins; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Luca Borger et al. | Research | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Global maps of Biodiversity Intactness Index (Sanchez-Ortiz et al., 2019 - bi...Global maps of biodiversity intactness for the year 2005 (Abundance-based BII and Richness-based BII). These high-resolution rasters were used to plot Figure 1 in "Land-use and...
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Katia Sanchez-Ortiz; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Adriana De Palma; Tim Newbold et al. | Research | License not specified |
UK Species Inventory - Master copyA full copy of the UK Species Inventory, including all tables. This gives the ultimate in functionality but does require a copy of Microsoft Access (or similar database...
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Chris Raper; Charles Hussey | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution |
Marine Plastic Pollution Ingested by Flesh-Footed ShearwatersIntroduction
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...
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Joseph Razzell Hollis; Gabrielle Henderson; Jennifer Lavers; Edward Rea et al. | Research | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collectionsData from paper: Sex biases and the scarcity of sex metadata in global herpetology collections. https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/142/3/308/7287291.
Tara Wainwright,...
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Tara Wainwright; Morwenna Trevenna; Sarah R. Alewijnse; Patrick Campbell; Marc Jones; Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Data from the "Back to the water" projectData from papers published as part of Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-323): Back to the water: macroevolutionary dynamics of secondarily aquatic tetrapods....
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Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Lycianthes (Solanaceae) of Australia, New Guinea & OceaniaSpecimen data used in the publication: Knapp S (2022) A revision of Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Australia, New Guinea, and the Pacific. PhytoKeys 209: 1-134,...
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Sandra Knapp | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |