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The Future of Natural History Collections [PDF]

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2004
Curators laid off, collections mothballed or transferred to other institutions, university museums shut down entirely—natural science collections and associated programs of specimen-based research are in crisis. The situation is typically characterized as a financial crisis, the result of an economic downswing that affects virtually every sector of ...
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The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories: A Call for Community Curation

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2016
The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories is an online metadata resource for biodiversity collections, the institutions that contain them, and associated staff members.
David Schindel, Scott Miller, Michael Trizna, Eileen Graham, Adele Crane   +4 more
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Combining transient dynamics and logistic‐asymptotic growth to study the recovery of two seabird populations after rat eradication

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier, Christophe Barbraud, Maxime Amy, Sabine Orlowski, Jean Hivert, Gabrielle Dicque, Matthieu Le Corre   +6 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Pseudoscorpions of Israel: Annotated Checklist and Key, with New Records of Two Families (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones)

Taxonomy, 2023
The location of Israel at the junction of three continents leads to a unique fauna of both Palearctic and Afrotropical zoogeographic origins. Following systematic revisions over the past sixty years and the discovery of new species, the only available ...
Sharon Warburg, Shlomi Aharon, Igor Armiach Steinpress, Prashant P. Sharma, Danilo Harms, Efrat Gavish-Regev   +5 more
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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

BioEssays, 2019
Living organisms are the ultimate survivalists, having evolved phenotypes with unprecedented adaptability, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and versatility compared to human technology. To harness these properties, functional descriptions and design principles from all sources of biodiversity information must be collated − including the hundreds of ...
Green, David W, Watson, Jolanta A, Jung, Han-Sung, Watson, Gregory S   +3 more
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
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Morphological and Genetic Variability in Radix auricularia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) of Lake Baikal, Siberia: The Story of an Unfinished Invasion into the Ancient Deepest Lake

Diversity, 2022
This article aims to reconstruct the invasion of the ear-shaped pond snail, Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758), to Lake Baikal, East Siberia. This species is widely distributed in the Palaearctic and Northern America, and since the early 20th century has
Katrin Schniebs, Tatiana Ya. Sitnikova, Maxim V. Vinarski, Anke Müller, Igor V. Khanaev, Anna K. Hundsdoerfer   +5 more
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CETAF Collection Dashboard: Mapping natural history collections diversity [PDF]

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2019
Several initiatives aim to map the diversity of Natural History (NH) collections and standardise their descriptions. The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories (GRBio) is the most recent global registry. Unfortunately the server has been down since mid-2018 but the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) recently "rescued" this data.
Patrick Semal, Marielle Adam, Didier Van den Spiegel, Franck Theeten, Henry Engledow, Patricia Mergen, Karsten Gödderz, Ana Rubio   +7 more
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Dendritic cells steering antigen and leukocyte traffic in lymph nodes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Dendritic cells are key players in the activation of T cells and their commitment to effector function. In this In a Nutshell Review, we will discuss how dendritic cells guide the trafficking of antigen and leukocytes in the lymph node, thus influencing T‐cell activation processes. Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in initiating and shaping the
Enrico Dotta, Agnieszka Katarzyna Maciola, Tania Baccega, Giulia Pasqual   +3 more
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