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.
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:
Mammal Collection, University of Alaska Museum (UAM)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen
Contacts
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- Originator
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Mammal specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | UAM:Mamm |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UAM |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=uam_mamm_ggbn |
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