Reposted by Mystyn W. Mills PhD
Ever wondered about #specimen custody - where specimens are housed relative to where they were collected - in #natural #history museum collections across time?
A new study looked at 253,131 preserved specimen records. See the persistent geographic imbalances they found here 👇
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Global Geography of Natural History Museum Specimen Holdings: A Time-Resolved Network Analysis of Mammal Collections, 1900–2020
Background: Natural history collections are foundational infrastructure for biodiversity science, but the global geography of specimen custody — where specimens are housed relative to where they were ...