Museomics, the Extended Specimen and Collectomics – how to frame and name the diversity of information linked to specimens in natural history collections [PDF]
Natural History Collections and MuseomicsIn light of recent technological advances – in fields such as computer science, imaging technologies, and molecular analysis methods – the possibilities for studying biological museum specimens and linking information across disciplines have expanded ...
Martin Kapun +7 more
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An annotated catalogue of selected historical type specimens, including genetic data, housed in the Natural History Museum Vienna [PDF]
ZooKeysMuseum 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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Technical capacities of digitisation centres within ICEDIG participating institutions [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 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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Boosting biodiversity in school grounds: a theory of change [PDF]
ARPHA ProceedingsThe National Education Nature Park aims to involve every nursery, school, and college in England in enhancing the biodiversity on their site, whilst supporting young people’s wellbeing, pro-environmental behaviours, and green skills.
Victoria J. Burton +5 more
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Sedum simingshanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Zhejiang, East China [PDF]
PhytoKeysIn 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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Cultural Heritage and the Problem of Prioritization
Текст і образ: актуальні проблеми історії мистецтв, 2022 Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relied on priority lists. These lists rank cultural properties by relative importance.
Hayden Bassett +4 more
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Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Black corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) are an anthozoan lineage in the class Hexacorallia that occur across a wide range of habitats from the tropics to the poles and from surface waters to depths deeper than 8000 m.
Jeremy Horowitz +3 more
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Understanding the users and uses of UK Natural History Collections [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2023 UK natural science collections hold over 137 million items, an unrivalled source of data about 4.56 billion years of planetary development and hundreds of years of biological change, including the differences made by humans — but the scientific ...
Helen Hardy +4 more
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Invertebrate collections policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 The collection policy of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus is hierarchically structured. General principles and guidelines are defined in the General Collections Policy.
Risto Väinölä +6 more
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