Description
The Desert Studies Center is a 1200-acre field station established for the better understanding and appreciation of the Mojave Desert. Its location on Chemehuevi territory within Mojave National Preserve provides access to the broad range of habitats and landscapes of the unique Mojave Desert, from alkalai salt flats to Joshua tree forest, from sand dunes to recent lava flows. Established in 1976 in partnership with the Bureau of Land ManagementOpens in new window , the Center is operated for the California State University by seven southern California CSU campuses: Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, and San Bernardino. With the passage of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994, the Desert Studies Center was placed into Mojave National PreserveOpens in new window , and the National Park Service became our federal partner. Mammal collections include 56 specimens with a focus primarily on the Mojave Desert geographic area, spanning from 1958-1992.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 54 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
California State University Desert Studies Center Mammal Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited by the catalog record url: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/CDSC:Mamm:1.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is CSU Desert Studies Center. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 94f9e72e-78b4-4975-b601-b1d0a8e6487c. CSU Desert Studies Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Primarily San Bernardino Co., CA. and southwest California
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [35, -115.473], North East [35.011, -81] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Mammals
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1958-1992 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | California Desert Studies Center Mammal Specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/CDSC:Mamm |
| Parent Collection Identifier | CDSC |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; https://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Education and research. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 94f9e72e-78b4-4975-b601-b1d0a8e6487c |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=cdsc_mamm |