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Biogeography
January 12th, 2011
Explore the Division of Fishes collection localities.
January 12th, 2011
This project is a comprehensive study of the Lasiosphaeriaceae (Fungi, Ascomycetes), the largest and least studied family in the order Sordariales. The order contains a number of economically important taxa including the model organisms Neurospora crassa Shear and Dodge and Sordaria fimicola (Rob. ex Desm.) Ces. and de Not. This project is designed to not only resolve systematic questions in this ecologically important family and order but also to address a number of challenges currently facing ascomycete systematics.
January 12th, 2011
This NSF-funded PEET project is exploring in detail several subgroups of the enormous beetle family Staphylinidae (rove beetles), which currently includes over 3% of all described animal species. These beetles occur in virtually all terrestrial habitats, and are particularly diverse and abundant in mesic or wetter habitats, especially forests.
January 11th, 2011
Scientists have discovered that in the Philippines, faunal regions were determined largely by the configuration of the Ice Age islands. We can map these configurations easily by drawing the shoreline as it existed about 20,000 years ago, when the seas were 120 meters below their present level. An entirely new image of the Philippines then emerges: "the Galapagos Islands times ten."
January 11th, 2011
The Bird Divsion traces its history back to very beginnings of The Field Museum. For over 120 years, curators and staff of the divsion have dedicated themselves to making these magnificent collectons and the data associated with them available to scientists and the public at large.
January 11th, 2011
Established in 1894, The Field Museum's collection of more than 1,700,000 specimens are the result of the collected efforts of our past and current scientific and collection staff.
January 10th, 2011
The bird database contains approximately 500,000 catalogue records from all orders of birds, all but one family, and more than 90% of the world's genera and species. It includes skins, skeletons, alcoholics, tissues, nests and eggs, stomach contents, and syringes.
January 10th, 2011
The Bird Division egg and nest collection has more than 21,000 egg sets and nests.
January 10th, 2011
Explore the Division of Fishes collection of specimen images.
