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Environment, Culture, and Conservation Collections

Putting collections to work for conservation ECCo's roots are in The Field Museum’s collections—the 24 million specimens that form a fundamental library of life. Using the collections, we create guides that put identification tools quickly into the hands of the people who need them, from citizen-scientists in the Chicago region to professional scientists working in the most remote places on the planet.

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Putting collections to work for conservation ECCo's roots are in The Field Museum’s collections—the 24 million specimens that form a fundamental library of life. Using the collections, we create guides that put identification tools quickly into the hands of the people who need them, from citizen-scientists in the Chicago region to professional scientists working in the most remote places on the planet.

Tropical plants

Tropical birds

Tropical animals

ChicagoRegion Rapid Identification Tools

Urban Material Culture

Conservation teaching tools

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Collections

This site is being made to speed up the general identification of dried specimens of Neotropical plants. It will be most useful to professional biologists and others doing species inventories of natural areas, ecology, and ethnobotany.
A Collection of Neotropical Plant Photographs
Whether taken to the field or used only on a computer screen, such guides fill a gap in the published material available to identify live species growing in tropical lands. Most of these guides are designed for use in the field, and, after free downloading, all can be...