Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: a survey and directory of collections.

ABSTRACT: As a periodic assessment of the mammal collection resource, the Systematic Collections Committee (SCC) of the American Society of Mammalogists undertakes decadal surveys of the collections held in the Western Hemisphere. The SCC surveyed 429 collections and compiled a directory of 395 active collections containing 5,275,155 catalogued specimens. Over the past decade, 43 collections have been lost or transferred and 38 new or unsurveyed collections were added. Growth in number of total specimens, expansion of genomic resource collections, and substantial gains in digitization and web accessibility were documented, as well as slight shifts in proportional representation of taxonomic groups owing to increasingly balanced geographic representation of collections relative to previous surveys. W

SUBMITTER: Dunnum JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283736 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature