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287 datasets found

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Exploring the shell-based taxonomy of the Sri Lankan land snail Corilla H. an...

Dataset: four concatenated alignment (including indels) of three mitochondrial genes (CO1, ND1 and 16S rRNA) for the Sri Lankan land snail Corilla (Pulmonata: Corillidae)....
Dinarzarde Raheem; Karin Breugelmans; Christopher Wade; Fred C Naggs; Thierry Backeljau Research License not specified

Robin Whatley's type and figured ostracods at the NHM

This is a list of papers on ostracods authored by Prof. Robin Whatley that contain reference to specimens housed at the Natural History Museum. The list was compiled as...
Giles Miller Collections CC-BY-SA-4.0

Metrosideros-feeding psyllids of the Hawaiian Islands

Abstract of publication: The Hawaiian psyllids (Psylloidea, Triozidae) feeding on Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) constitute a remarkable radiation of more than 35 species. This...
Diana Percy Research ODC-BY-1.0

Duxbury collection database

Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst specimens. The database includes the original...
Susanne Feist-Burkhardt; Andrew S Henderson; Iona McLachlan Collections License not specified

First Fleet artwork collection

On 13 May 1787 eleven ships, now commonly referred to as the First Fleet, set sail from Portsmouth to establish a colony in New South Wales, Australia. They reached their...
Natural History Museum Collections License not specified

Recent foram diversity

This data are used to produce the analysis and results of the paper Fenton et al (2016) Environmental predictors of diversity in Recent planktonic foraminifera from marine...
Isabel Fenton Research ODC-BY-1.0

Cicadas of India

Data supporting: Price B, Allan E, Marathe K, Sarkar V, Simon C, Kunte K (2016) The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an...
Benjamin Price; Louise Allan; Kiran Marathe; V Sarkar; Chris Simon; K Kunte Research CC-BY-4.0

Dataset collated for meta-analysis of the Natural History Museum's grounds

This dataset contains surveyed estimates of species richness of invertebrates and plants in different habitat types, or habitats of different areas. Data was collated from...
Helen Phillips; Sandra Knapp; Andy Purvis Research CC-BY-4.0

Crop weeds of Paraguay

Paraguay, a country whose economy is based mainly on agriculture and livestock for export, has experienced a major expansion in mechanized crops during the last few decades....
Maria Peña Chocarro Collections ODC-BY-1.0

Widespread occurrence of vermiculite on Mars

Vermiculite is probably widespread on Mars due to low water conditions and the abundant mafic rocks. Data from Riotinto (SW Spain) provide an example and model of vermiculite...
Javier Cuadros; Chris Mavris Research License not specified

Recent and Eocene planktonic foraminiferal diversity

Two datasets containing multiple diversity metrics of planktonic foraminifera. Recent data is from MARGO; Eocene data is from NEPTUNE, supplemented by literature searches. These...
Isabel Fenton Research ODC-BY-1.0

Burrow casts of the mole cricket genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

3D scans of the burrows of Gryllotalpa vineae Bennet-Clark, 1970 and Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758).
Edward Baker Collections CC-BY-NC-4.0

Next-generation mitogenomics: A comparison of approaches applied to caecilian...

Seychelles caecilian mitogenome alignments and phylogenetic trees: Maddock ST, Briscoe AG, Wilkinson M, Waeschenbach A, San Mauro D, Day JJ, Littlewood DTJ, Foster PG, Nussbaum...
Simon Maddock; Andrew Briscoe; Mark Wilkinson; Andrea Waeschenbach et al. Research License not specified

Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Lifebuoy Lake...

This dataset is a csv file of abundance data of chironomid larvae subfossils isolated from a lake sediment core collected on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East. Lifebuoy...
Angela Self Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Data supporting 'Late Holocene environmental change in arctic western Siberia.'

This dataset is a csv file of abundance data of chironomid larvae subfossils isolated from lake sediment cores collected on the Putorana Plateau, western Siberia. The lakes were...
Angela Self Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Pechora Lake,...

This dataset is a csv file of abundance data of chironomid larvae subfossils isolated from a lake sediment core collected on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East. The lake,...
Angela Self Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Data supporting two papers on chironomid larvae subfossils from Olive-backed ...

This dataset is a csv file of abundance data of chironomid larvae subfossils isolated from a lake sediment core collected on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East....
Angela Self Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Data supporting 'The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitu...

This dataset is a csv file of abundance data of chironomid larvae subfossils isolated from surface sediments collected from lakes in arctic and subarctic Russia between 61 and...
Angela Self Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Bluebell Survey 2012

Data from the 2012 Natural History Museum Bluebell Survey - a citizen science recording project.
Lucy Robinson License not specified

NightLife

Circuit board designs for the NightLife project to create a cheap, robust and open hardware LED light trap for aquatic insects, and raw data from the NightLife publication.
Edward Baker; Benjamin Price Research CC-BY-4.0

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