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Flora of Forfarshire
Digitized version of the Flora of Forfarshire by William Gardiner (1848). This collection contains updated nomenclature and georeferencing of plants included in the main book with the plant descriptions, and a supplementary ...
Recent Submissions
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General Fish Surveys on Selected Texas National Guard Properties: Camp Bowie, Camp Mabry, Camp Maxey, Camp Swift and Fort Wolters
(2007-12)The Texas Natural History Collection of the Texas Natural Science Center was contracted to conduct a fish survey on five Texas Military Forces facilities in Texas, including: Camp Mabry (Travis County), Camp Swift ... -
Fishes of Texas Project: update and future
(2023-02-23)Fish occurrence data are widely scattered and mostly not published as data readily utilizable by computers. Global biodiversity aggregating services (e.g. GBIF, iDigBio, Fishnet) now aggregate and serve whatever data are ... -
Testing An Alternative Shelving Arrangement to Optimize Space and Task Efficiency in a Fluid Fish Collection
(2022-06-04)For centuries, a taxonomic and alphabetic arrangement (TAA) of objects on shelves prevailed in fluid-preserved natural history collections while they were managed mostly by scientists for their own or vistors’ on-site ... -
Conservation of Texas freshwater fish diversity: selection of Species of Greatest Conservation Need
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Goodenough Spring Catchment Area Characterization, Amistad Reservoir, Rio Grande Valley
(Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238-5166, 2021-12)Goodenough Spring is a major spring discharging more than 100,000 acre-ft/yr into the Rio Grande prior to the construction of Amistad Reservoir and about 51,900 acre-ft/year after its construction along the Texas-Coahuila ... -
Conservation Status of Native Fishes in the Chihuahuan Desert Region of the United States: a spatial perspective
(Desert Fishes Council, 2021)Native fishes in the American Southwest are in need of conservation because of anthropogenic riverscape alterations involving habitat destruction, introduction of non-native species, and dewatering. Status assessments are ... -
Fishes of Texas Project: Government-University Collaboration to Improve Science and Conservation Management
(The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and the American Institute for Conservation, 2021-06-21)Since 2006 the Fishes of Texas (FoTX) Project at University of Texas Austin (UT) has sought to improve freshwater fish occurrence data for the state of Texas and make it openly accessible to facilitate research and improve ... -
The Fishes of Texas Project: Government-University Collaboration to Improve Science and Conservation Management
(YouTube, 2021-06-24)Since 2006, the Fishes of Texas Project at University of Texas Austin has sought to improve freshwater fish occurrence data for the state of Texas and make it openly accessible to facilitate research and improve aquatic ... -
An Alternative Shelving Arrangement for Natural History Collection Objects to Optimize Space and Task Efficiency
(Allen Press, 2019-09-01)A taxonomic and alphabetic arrangement (TAA) of objects on shelves has prevailed in fluid-preserved natural history collections while they were managed by scientists for their own research. Now most collections are databased ... -
Dried and salted: Cumulative impacts of diminished flows and salinization on Lower Pecos River food webs
(Desert Fishes Council, 2021)The Lower Pecos River in New Mexico and Texas, USA has experienced salinization due to exacerbation of natural saline inputs by flow alteration and irrigation practices. This situation is most pronounced in the Permian ... -
Biogeography of Cyprinodon across the Great Plains-Chihuahuan Desert region and adjacent areas
(Desert Fishes Council, 2021)Cyprinodon is renowned for localized endemism across the North American desert. Competing molecular studies have made elucidating timing of diversification across the desert controversial. Debate has focused on Mojave ... -
Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council Special Publication 2021
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The Heterothermic Vertebrates of the Lower Pecos River Drainage, Pecos, Crockett, Terrell and Val Verde Counties, Texas
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Status Survey of Devil´s River Minnow in Historic Range with Emphasis on Coahuila, Mexico
(Pronatura Noreste, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 2007-12-15)English - A study was carried out to document the current status of the Devil's River Minnow, Dionda diaboli Hubbs and Brown, 1956, in northern Coahuila, Mexico. Three field trips were carried out with a total of 49 ... -
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Northeast Louisiana University Museum of Zoology 1962-1992
(Northeast Louisiana University, 1992)No formal abstract provided in this report. -
Ciénegas - Vanishing Climax Communities of the American Southwest
(Desert Plants, 1985)The term is here applied to mid-elevation (1,000-2,000 m) wetlands characterized by permanently saturated, highly organic, reducing soils. A depauperate flora dominated by low sedges highly adapted to such soils characterizes ...
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