New Websites Highlight Biodiversity Research

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The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum.

Prominent on the institute's new web site, biodiversity.ku.edu, are the research, collections and discoveries of its scientists and graduate students who explore and document the life of the planet.

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New Biodiversity Institute Web Sites

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image/jpeg iconWhen it launches in fall 2010, the archaeology website will feature photos of artifacts in the archaeology collection.
image/jpeg iconFuture websites for research divisions such as botany, left, are thematically tied to the specimens its researchers study.
image/jpeg iconThe future website for Entomology.
image/jpeg iconThe future website of the genetic sequencing lab will provide streamlined access to services.
image/jpeg iconSeveral of the new websites will prominently feature news of recent accomplishments, expeditions and publications.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming ichthyology website.
image/jpeg iconThe future website for informatics, which will highlight its Specify software.
image/jpeg iconThe future invertebrate paleontology website.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming invertebrate zoology website.
image/jpeg iconSome of the future research websites, such as the site for mammalogy, will feature animal identification keys.
image/jpeg iconBiodiversity modeling and policy is one of two research areas that will have websites for the first time.
image/jpeg iconPhotograph galleries will be a part of future research websites such as this site for ornithology.
image/jpeg iconThe new research sites will come online in fall 2010.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming site for the Paleontological Institute.
image/jpeg iconThe future site for vertebrate paleontology.
image/jpeg iconParasitology's web site.

The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum. Revamped websites for the Biodiversity Institute's research divisions, such as mammalogy, herpetology and botany, are also in development.

Mammalogy Details

Mammalogy has extensive historical collections from Central America, Mexico and the southeast, central and western regions of the United States, as well as Alaska. Most of the collection consists of nicely prepared skins, skulls and complete skeletons, with most recent specimens accompanied by tissues. There is broad taxonomic coverage, including important holdings of Central and South American marsupials, insectivores, bats and rodents; Holarctic shrews, microtines and squirrels; and North American bats, insectivores, carnivores, rodents and lagomorphs.

Established: 
1866
Number of Specimens: 
169,000 specimens
Research Strengths: 
conservation of Latin American mammals; population ecology, host-parasite relationships, and disease ecology of mammals of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains; historical biogeography and evolution of Southeast Asian bats and insectivores; and phylogeography of Pacific Northwest mammals
Curator: 
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