KUBI Ornithology Tissue Collection
Citation
Robbins M (2014). KUBI Ornithology Tissue Collection. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/spvs3n accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-10-02.Description
The Ornithology group in the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas conducts research and provides undergraduate and graduate education on the birds of the world. Research topics include the species limits and species diversity, evolution, geography, genetics and genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior. This work is greatly enhanced by extensive research collections of world birds, numbering about 112,000 specimens, many of which are recently collected as part of the group's global bird sampling program.The frozen tissue collection, > 25,000 samples, is the fastest-growing in Ornithology. See geographic coverage for the broad scope of efforts across the planet. As a result of these modern inventories, the collections see intense use from both within KU and in the systematic community at large.
Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
During the past 20 years there have been significant collections made in the following countries: the Great Plains of the US, Mexico, El Salvador, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia (Borneo), Northern Mariana Islands, Fiji, Palau, Solomon Islands, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Australia.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Mark Robbinsoriginator
position: Collections Manager
KU Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +01 785 864 3657
email: mrobbins@ku.edu
homepage: http://ornithology.biodiversity.ku.edu/
Mark Robbins
metadata author
position: Collections Manager
KU Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +01 785 864 3657
email: mrobbins@ku.edu
homepage: http://ornithology.biodiversity.ku.edu/
A. Townsend Peterson
principal investigator
position: Curator
KU Biodiversity Institute
Telephone: +01 785 864 3926
email: town@ku.edu
homepage: http://ornithology.biodiversity.ku.edu
Robert Moyle
principal investigator
position: Curator in Charge
KU Biodiversity Institute
Telephone: +01 785 864 1870
email: moyle@ku.edu
homepage: http://ornithology.biodiversity.ku.edu/
Laura Russell
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
KU Biodiversity Institute
Telephone: +01 785 813-1496
email: larussell@vertnet.org
Mark Robbins
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager
KU Biodiversity Institute
Dyche Hall, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence
66045
KS
US
Telephone: +01 785 864 3657
email: mrobbins@ku.edu
homepage: http://ornithology.biodiversity.ku.edu/