Description
The UNRMNH Bird collection includes approximately 2100 specimens with a focus on Nevada.
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 198 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:
The University of Nevada Reno Museum of Natural History Bird Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited by the catalof record url: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/UNR:Bird:1.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Nevada, Reno. 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 been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cba24274-3a1b-4a02-9f22-0910307bd3d4. University of Nevada, Reno publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Graduate Assistant
http://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0451-3690
- Point Of Contact
- Associate Museum Director, Curator, and Professor
Geographic Coverage
Primarily Nevada and the Western United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1880-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Bird specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/UNR:Bird |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UNR |
| Specimen preservation methods |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Collections serve important teaching and research functions for multiple classes and labs at UNR. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | cba24274-3a1b-4a02-9f22-0910307bd3d4 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=unr_bird |