Title: Mammal Specimen Provenances: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2011
- Point data
- 2011
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
- Bay Area Open Space Council
- Conservation Lands Network
- San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project
- GreenInfo Network (Firm)
Dates
- Issued: 2011
- Coverage: 2011
Publishers
- Bay Area Open Space Council
Summary
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) mammal collection is the fourth largest in the United States and the second largest such collection associated with a U.S. academic institution. It contains over 230,000 skin, skull, skeleton and fluid-preserved specimens. Over 33,700 are also represented by frozen or fluid preserved tissues. The collection includes 364 type specimens, making it the fourth largest collection of such specimens in the US. Karyotype (chromosome) preparations are available for ca. 4,000 rodent specimens. These consist of slides of chromosome preparations and, in some cases, black and white photos and/or 35 mm negatives of chromosome spreads. The mammal collection also houses large series of lab-raised specimens from research by Francis B. Sumner, Richard D. Sage, and William Z. Lidicker. This point shapefile displays original points of discovery of mammal specimens in the nine county San Francisco Bay Area Region, California. This dataset was developed/compiled for use in the San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project, a Project used to identify a Conservation Lands Network (CLN) for biodiversity preservation to inform conservation investments and lasting cooperative conservation partnerships. The Conservation Lands Network GIS Database is the primary output of the Project. The data depicts the spatially explicit CLN that is recommended for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area Region, California. Bay Area Open Space Council, GreenInfo Network, Conservation Lands Network, and San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project. (2011). Mammal Specimen Provenances: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2011. Bay Area Open Space Council. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/zd171nh4199. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley Herpetological Collection: http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Mammal_Collection.html This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Subjects
- Environment
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
- Alameda County (Calif.)
- Contra Costa County (Calif.)
- Marin County (Calif.)
- Napa County (Calif.)
- San Francisco County (Calif.)
- San Mateo County (Calif.)
- Santa Clara County (Calif.)
- Solano County (Calif.)
- Sonoma County (Calif.)
- Biogeography
- Mammals
- Provenances
- Animals--Identification
- Biology and Ecology
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-123.517097, -121.41795, 38.837126, 36.923003)
- Geometry: BBOX (-123.517097, -121.41795, 38.837126, 36.923003)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Bay Area Open Space Council, Conservation Lands Network, San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project, GreenInfo Network (Firm). Mammal Specimen Provenances: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2011. Bay Area Open Space Council. Point data. https://purl.stanford.edu/zd171nh4199
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English