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Semantic Annotation of Natural History Collections
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Large collections of historical biodiversity expeditions are housed in natural history museums throughout the world. Potentially they can serve as rich sources of data for cultural historical and biodiversity research. However, they exist as only partially catalogued specimen repositories and images of unstructured, non-standardised, hand-written text ...
Stork, L. +6 more
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Parasitoid Wasp Community Dynamics in Vineyards Following Insecticide Application
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 In order to integrate parasitoid wasps in agroecosystems as biological control agents, we need to understand how insecticides affect the parasitoids in the crops and their surroundings.
Bracha Schindler +3 more
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DNA barcoding reveals a new cryptic species of Denisia Hübner, 1825 (Lepidoptera, Oecophoridae) from the south-western Alps [PDF]
Alpine EntomologyA new species of concealer moths (Oecophoridae), Denisia cryptica sp. nov., is described from specimens collected in the south-western Alps (Italy, France).
Peter Huemer
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Whistling invaders: Status and distribution of Johnstone’s Whistling frog (Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914), 25 years after its introduction to Colombia [PDF]
NeoBiota, 2019 Despite increased attention to the problem of alien amphibian invasions, systematic assessments of the actual invasion status and potential, required to estimate possible environmental and economic impacts of introduced species, are often missing.
Franziska Leonhardt +2 more
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Manual of praying mantis morphology, nomenclature, and practices (Insecta, Mantodea)
ZooKeys, 2017 This study provides a comprehensive review of historical morphological nomenclature used for praying mantis (Mantodea) morphology, which includes citations, original use, and assignment of homology.
Sydney K. Brannoch +5 more
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NaturalHeritage: Bridging Belgian natural history collections [PDF]
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019 The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and Meise Botanic Garden house more than 50 million specimens covering all fields of natural history. While many different research topics have their own specificities, throughout the years it became apparent that with regards to collection ...
Franck Theeten +12 more
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One World Collection: The state of the world’s natural history collections [PDF]
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019 The world's natural history collections represent a vast repository of information on the natural and cultural world, collected over 250 years of human exploration, and distributed across institutions on six continents. These collections provide a unique tool for answering fundamental questions about biological, geological and cultural diversity and ...
Owens,Ian, Johnson,Kirk
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 We describe a new troglophilic species of Filistata, F. betarif sp. nov. , collected from two caves in central Israel, by using light and electron microscopy and by DNA barcoding of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene.
Ivan L.F. Magalhaes +3 more
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Natural Selection: Finding Specimens in a Natural History Collection [PDF]
, 2011 The natural history domain is rich in information. For hundreds of years, biodiversity researchers have collected specimens and samples, and meticulously recorded the how, what, and where of these objects of research. To retrace this information, however, deep knowledge of the collection and patience is necessary.
Erp, M. van +5 more
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