Description
John Wesley Powell & Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections</br></br> The bird and mammal collections total over 6,000 specimens representing 560 species and 120 families, and date back to 1867. The bulk of the collections is from Illinois and the United States, with holdings also from Africa, India, Europe, and South America. We prepare salvaged birds and mammals into scientific study skins, and save stomach contents, skeletons, and frozen tissues (for DNA).
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 1,157 records.
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.
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How to cite
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John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections, Illinois State University
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Illinois State University. John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections (ISU) data records may be used by individual researchers or research groups, but they may not be repackaged, resold, or redistributed in any form without the express written consent of a curatorial staff member of the John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections. If any of these records are used in an analysis or report, the provenance of the original data must be acknowledged and the John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections notified. The John Wesley Powell-Dale Birkenholz Natural History Collections and its staff are not responsible for damages, injury or loss due to the use of these data.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 81e4afd9-0b61-483d-b7fa-0690f06c8e14. Illinois State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Collections Manager
- 411 SLB (Science Lab Building)
- +01 309-438-5556
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Vertebrates
- 419 SLB (Science Lab Building)
- +01 309-438-5124