Historical museum collections and contemporary population studies implicate roads and introduced predatory bullfrogs in the decline of western pond turtles. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The western pond turtle (WPT), recently separated into two paripatrically distributed species (Emys pallida and Emys marmorata), is experiencing significant reductions in its range and population size. In addition to habitat loss, two potential causes of
Nicholson EG +8 more
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Robbery in progress: Historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern Australia, the Copperback Quail-thrush Cinclosoma clarum. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 We surveyed mitochondrial, autosomal, and Z chromosome diversity within and between the Copperback Quail‐thrush Cinclosoma clarum and Chestnut Quail‐thrush C.
McElroy K +7 more
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Widespread male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance The extent to which the fossil record provides an accurate picture of past life is an important issue that is often difficult to assess. We genetically sexed 277 mammalian subfossils using high-throughput sequencing of ancient DNA, and found
Gower G +10 more
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People-Powered Research and Experiential Learning: Unravelling Hidden Biodiversity [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2022 Globally, thousands of institutions house nearly three billion scientific collections offering unparallelled resources that contribute to both science and society.
Melanie Pivarski +60 more
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DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European
Dimitrios Koureas +4 more
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A global approach for natural history museum collections
Science, 2023 Description Integration of the world’s natural history collections can provide a resource for decision-makers Over the past three centuries, people have collected objects and specimens and placed them in natural history museums throughout the world ...
Kirk R. Johnson, I. P. Owens
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This is not an apple! Benefits and challenges of applying computer vision to museum collections
Museum Management and Curatorship, 2021 The application of computer vision on museum collection data is at an experimental stage with predictions that it will grow in significance and use in the coming years.
Elena Villaespesa, O. Murphy
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Lagoonscapes, 2023 The following article discusses Paradise Camp by Samoan-Japanese artist Yuki Kihara, curated by Professor Natalie King which is on exhibition at The Powerhouse, Sydney, Australia throughout 2023. Authors delve into the significance of Paradise Camp as
Sentance, Nathan Mudyi +2 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 Aname L. Koch, 1873 is an incredibly diverse genus of mygalomorph spiders endemic to Australia, occurring from coast to coast in tropical, semi-arid and arid bioregions.
Jeremy Dean Wilson +2 more
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Diversity, 2021 The subfamily Acastinae contains a diverse group of barnacles that are obligate symbionts of sponges and alcyonacean and antipatharian corals. Integrating morphological and genetic (COI) data to compare against known species, this paper reports on nine ...
Andrew M. Hosie +3 more
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