Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biodiversity of Lumbrineridae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Central Pacific Clarion-Clipperton Zone [PDF]
The DNA taxonomy of six species of the annelid family Lumbrineridae collected from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Central Pacific, an area of potential mining interest for polymetallic nodules, is presented.
Lenka Neal+7 more
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Biodiversity data and new species descriptions of polychaetes from offshore waters of the Falkland Islands, an area undergoing hydrocarbon exploration [PDF]
Benthic environmental impact assessments and monitoring programs accompanying offshore hydrocarbon industry activities result in large collections of benthic organisms. Such collections offer great potential for systematics, biodiversity and biogeography
Lenka Neal+6 more
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Palaeontology Collection Policy [PDF]
The Paleontological Collection (PalCo) is one of partial collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus. General principles and guidelines for the collections are defined in the General Collection Policy of Luomus.
Björn Kröger+9 more
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Living plant collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
The collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus is hierarchically structured. The general collections policy defines the overall principles and guidelines. The sub-collections policies, such as the Living collections policy, comply
Marko-Tapio Hyvärinen+16 more
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Costbook of the digitisation infrastructure of DiSSCo [PDF]
There has been little work to compare and understand the operating costs of digitisation using a standardised approach. This paper discusses a first attempt at gathering digitisation cost information from multiple institutions and analysing the data ...
Alex Hardisty+4 more
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Herbarium collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
The herbarium collections are sub-collections of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus that manages national natural history collections, as referred to in the Universities Act.
Henry Väre+10 more
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Open Information and Exceptions Policy of the Natural History Museum, London [PDF]
There have been few, if any, open data and information management policies openly published from natural science collections. This paper contextualises the rationale for publishing the Open Information and Exceptions Policy of the Natural History Museum,
Matt Woodburn+8 more
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An annotated catalogue of selected historical type specimens, including genetic data, housed in the Natural History Museum Vienna [PDF]
Museum collections are an important source for resolving taxonomic issues and species delimitation. Type specimens as name-bearing specimens, traditionally used in morphology-based taxonomy, are, due to the progress in historical DNA methodology ...
Anja Palandačić+8 more
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Sedum simingshanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Zhejiang, East China [PDF]
In this paper, Sedum simingshanense sp. nov. is described as a new species based on morphological and molecular analyses, and its taxonomic relationships are discussed. Morphological analysis indicates S.
Shi-Qi She+7 more
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Technical capacities of digitisation centres within ICEDIG participating institutions [PDF]
DiSSCo, the Distributed System of Scientific Collections, is seeking to centralise certain infrastructure and activities relating to the digitisation of natural science collections.
Naomi Cocks+3 more
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