منابع مشابه
Paleozoology’s Dependence on Natural History Collections
Paleozoology (zooarchaeology and paleontology) depends on natural history collections, or comparative collections, of skeletons of known taxonomy. These skeletons permit taxonomic identification of paleozoological specimens, facilitate identification of taphonomically (perimortem and postmortem) modified and abnormal or pathological specimens, and provide metric data for monitoring clinal varia...
متن کاملInselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections.
The world's natural history collections constitute an enormous evidence base for scientific research on the natural world. To facilitate these studies and improve access to collections, many organisations are embarking on major programmes of digitization. This requires automated approaches to mass-digitization that support rapid imaging of specimens and associated data capture, in order to proc...
متن کاملThe Stability of Natural History Specimens In Fluid-preserved Collections
Natural history museum collections are incomparable storehouses of geological, biological, and genetic resources throughout the world. Some of the materials composing the specimens in these collections are vulnerable to deterioration when stored in fluids. Samples were taken from liquid storage media surrounding mammal specimens in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Inst...
متن کاملNatural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org August 2014 / Vol. 64 No. 8 • BioScience 725 BioScience 64: 725–734. © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu096 Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovativ...
متن کاملNatural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes.
Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in biogeography, systematics and conservation. However, they also hold the potential for studying evolution directly. While some of the best direct observations of evolution have come from long-term field studies or from experimental st...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1878
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/018328a0