INHS Insect Collection
http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Service
http://harvester.cria.org.br/tapirlink/tapir.php/inhs-insects
The Illinois Natural History Survey’s Biological Collections include more than 9.5 million specimens housed in eleven separate collections. All collections except the birds collection and the mammals collection rank within the 15th largest in North America. These collections, some of which date back over 150 years, represent the most complete record of Illinois biota anywhere. Most collections are also global in geographic coverage for many groups. Because these specimens document the presence of species through time, our collections are an invaluable resource for tracking changes in species distributions as habitats have been modified. The collections are regularly used in scientific research to recognize threatened and endangered species, determine the arrival and spread of exotic and invasive species, provide baseline data for ecological restoration projects, evaluate habitat quality over time and space, assess the effects of climate change, locate populations of medical or economic importance, resolve evolutionary relationships, discover new species, and facilitate species identification through comparative morphology and DNA barcoding. Many specimen records are available online through web-based searchable databases accessible to scientists, resource managers, policy makers, and the public. Data shared with the speciesLink network refers to samples collected in Brazil.
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2025-02-11T22:00:01-03:00
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data supplier
inhs-insects
INHS Insect Collection
The Illinois Natural History Survey’s Biological Collections include more than 9.5 million specimens housed in eleven separate collections. All collections except the birds collection and the mammals collection rank within the 15th largest in North America. These collections, some of which date back over 150 years, represent the most complete record of Illinois biota anywhere. Most collections are also global in geographic coverage for many groups. Because these specimens document the presence of species through time, our collections are an invaluable resource for tracking changes in species distributions as habitats have been modified. The collections are regularly used in scientific research to recognize threatened and endangered species, determine the arrival and spread of exotic and invasive species, provide baseline data for ecological restoration projects, evaluate habitat quality over time and space, assess the effects of climate change, locate populations of medical or economic importance, resolve evolutionary relationships, discover new species, and facilitate species identification through comparative morphology and DNA barcoding. Many specimen records are available online through web-based searchable databases accessible to scientists, resource managers, policy makers, and the public. Data shared with the speciesLink network refers to samples collected in Brazil.
inhs-insects
data administrator
Edward DeWalt
curador
dewalt@illinois.edu
data administrator
Christopher H Dietrich
curador
dietrich@inhs.illinois.edu
data administrator
Sam W Heads
curador
swheads@illinois.edu
data administrator
Kevin P Johnson
curador
kjohnson@inhs.illinois.edu
data administrator
Matthew J Yoder
curador
diapriid@gmail.com
technical host
CRIA
Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
CRIA
CRIA (Reference Center on Environmental Information) is a not-for-profit, non-government organization. Its aim is to contribute towards a more sustainable use of Brazil's biodiversity through the dissemination of high quality information and education.
http://www.cria.org.br
system administrator
Sidnei de Souza
Informatics Director
+55 19 3288-0466
contato@cria.org.br