WNMU Bird Collection (Arctos)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Western New Mexico University on Oct 29, 2024 Western New Mexico University

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Description

Western New Mexico University houses a regional collection of bird specimens (about 1100 specimens) focused on the biodiversity of southwestern New Mexico. This collection is part of the Gila Center for Natural History within the Department of Natural Sciences. The collection currently is static, with no growth since 1993.

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 1,344 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.

Occurrence (core)
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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Western New Mexico University Bird Collection

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Western New Mexico University. 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: bdce0b4b-9ec3-481b-9f44-683ac1844d1d.  Western New Mexico University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Randy Jennings
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor
Western New Mexico University
  • Department of Natural Sciences
88061 Silver City
NM
US
  • (575) 538-6519
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
  • Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum

Geographic Coverage

The Western New Mexico University bird collection has global holdings, but coverage is focused on New Mexico.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Aves

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1853-present

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers bdce0b4b-9ec3-481b-9f44-683ac1844d1d
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=wnmu_bird