Description
The University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections Bird material with reliable locality data is mostly from the United States, but there is also a significant component of exotic or native taxa with inadequate collection data. The collections include skeletal material along with the traditional skin-skull/study skin specimens.
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 3,122 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:
Zhuang V, Mayfield-Meyer T (2024). UTEP Birds (Arctos). Version 1.82. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=utep_bird&v=1.82
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections. 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: f85f5c5c-ce02-4337-9317-23fe54769ff2. University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Bird material with reliable locality data is mostly from the United States, but there is also a significant component of exotic or native taxa with inadequate collection data.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Bird material is mostly from the United States, but there is also a significant component of exotic or native taxa with inadequate collection data.
| Class | Aves |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1900-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Univerisity of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Colllections - Birds |
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| Collection Identifier | UTEP:Bird |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UTEP |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Data set was developed through the work of University of Texas at El Paso faculty and students and is created to support future research. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | f85f5c5c-ce02-4337-9317-23fe54769ff2 |
| http://arctos.database.museum/utep_bird | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=utep_bird |