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128 datasets found

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Baleen stable isotope data

This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the...
Clive N. Trueman; Andrew Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Xenophyophores

Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover Collections License not specified

Fenton et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera".
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil

Dataset of specimen and localities of Brazilian species of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades)
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes

Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090...
Charlotte E Page; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area...

Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both...
Helen Phillips; John M Halley; J Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Andy Purvis Research Creative Commons Attribution

NHM Interactions Bank

A combined ecological interactions dataset from various projects at the Natural History Museum, London. The data is aggregated from a number of individual projects hosted in the...
Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Elaeagnifolium clade (Solanum)

Data set of specimens used in the publication: Knapp, S., E. Sagona, A.K.Z. Carbonell and F. Chiarini (2017) A revision of the Solanum elaeagnifolium clade (Elaeagnifolium...
Sandra Knapp Research ODC-BY-1.0

African spiny Solanum

Specimen data used in the revision African spiny Solanum species for the publication by Vorontsova MS and Knapp S (2016) A revision of the "spiny solanums", Solanum subgenus...
Sandra Knapp Collections ODbL-1.0

Eggplant gap analysis data

This dataset is is a csv file of occurrence data from museum/herbarium and germplasm banks used to analyze gaps in collection and representation of eggplant (Solanum melongena)...
Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez Collections ODC-BY-1.0

Solanum insanum

Dataset of specimens examined of the eggplant wild relative Solanum insanum; used in the preparation of: Ranil RHG, Prohens J, Aubriot X, Niran HML, Plazas M, Fonseka RM,...
Sandra Knapp Collections ODC-BY-1.0

Solanum ANS Clade

CSV format file of all specimens used in the preparation of the monograph of the monograph of the African Non-Spiny Clade of Solanum (Solanaceae). Publication details: Knapp, S....
Sandra Knapp Collections 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

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

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

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

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

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