University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Mammal specimens (Arctos) for GGBN

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on Jul 2, 2021 University of Alaska Museum of the North
Home:
http://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/mammal/
Publication date:
2 July 2021
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The University of Alaska Museum houses one of the 10 largest mammal collections in North America, with over 135,000 cataloged specimens. Over 90% of these are from Alaska and include unparalleled series of small mammals, carnivores, and marine mammals. Over 80,000 include frozen tissue samples housed in UAM's Genomic Resources facility. An average of 1,000 specimens are loaned to researchers each year.

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 180,421 records.

5 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.

Occurrence (core)
180421
Permit 
327500
MaterialSample 
180421
Preparation 
180421
ResourceRelationship 
180421
Amplification 
45285

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mammal Collection, University of Alaska Museum (UAM)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen

Contacts

John Wieczorek
  • Programmer ●
  • Originator
  • Information Architect
VertNet
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Río Negro
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Kyndall Hildebrandt
  • Metadata Provider
  • Genomic Resources Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
  • (907) 474-6914
Aren Gunderson
  • Point Of Contact
  • Mammals Collection Manager
University of Alaska Musem
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
  • Arctos Database Programmer
Arctos

Geographic Coverage

Global

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Collection Data

Collection Name University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Mammal specimens
Collection Identifier UAM:Mamm
Parent Collection Identifier UAM

Additional Metadata