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| Chapter 1 Natural History Collections: An Essential Resource for Science in the 21st Century |
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1.1 Collections in early 21st century science |
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1.2 New explorations because of the magnitude and diversity of the collections' data |
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1.3 Research using and driving the constitution of natural history collections |
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1.3.1 Being able to return to the object: one of the major contributions of natural history collections |
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1.3.2 Collections at the heart of highly innovative research thanks to new technologies |
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1.3.3 A resource for global change research |
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1.3.4 Designing the science of the future based on collections |
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| Chapter 2 Natural History Collections: An Ancient Concept in a Present and Future Perspective |
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2.2 A tribute to curiosity and coupling with classifications |
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2.3 The structuring of our thoughts and actions by an ancient concept |
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2.4 Collections: more than species catalogues |
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2.5 Big Data collections in space and time |
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2.6 What future is there for the use of collections? |
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| Chapter 3 Louis XIV's Blue Gems: Exceptional Rediscoveries at the French National Museum of Natural History |
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3.2 A scientific investigation of color |
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3.3 The digital decoding of the creative genius of the royal gem cutter |
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3.4 Epilogue: toward a renaissance... |
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| Chapter 4 Rediscovering Human Mummies: Unpublished data on the Chachapoya Mummy Exhibited at the Musee de l'Homme |
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4.1.1 The Museum's collection of human mummies |
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4.1.2 Origin, discovery, donation and exhibition: a brief history of the mummy |
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4.2 Materials and methods |
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4.2.1 The MNHN-HA-30187 mummy: position of the body, measurements and external appearance |
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4.2.2 Medical imaging protocol and technique |
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4.2.3 Protocol for experimental reproduction of trepanation |
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4.3.1 Basic biological identity |
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4.3.2 Osteo-dental status |
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4.3.5 Cranial trepanation: location, size and mode of operation |
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4.4.1 Identity of the deceased and health status |
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4.4.2 Treatment of the corpse and embalming |
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4.4.3 Chronology of mortuary gestures |
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| Chapter 5 Reconstructing the History of Human Populations: A Challenge for Biological Anthropology |
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5.1.1 How human remains have also become scientific objects |
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5.1.2 The MNHN biological anthropology collection |
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5.1.3 Cranial morphology as an indication of biocultural processes |
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5.2 Cranial morphology and settlement history |
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5.2.1 A new look at the diversity of Native Americans |
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5.3 Cranial morphology and adaptation to the environment |
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5.3.1 Cranial diversity beyond randomness |
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5.4 The importance of cranial collection for the advancement of research in biological anthropology |
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| Chapter 6 The Discovery of New Metal-Hyperaccumulating Plant Species in Herbaria |
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6.1 Metal-hyperaccumulating plants |
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6.2 The screening of herbarium collections: from atomic absorption to X-ray fluorescence |
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6.3 The discovery of new metal-hyperaccumulating plants at the MNHN herbarium |
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6.3.1 The interest of the MNHN herbarium for the research of metal-hyperaccumulating plants |
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6.3.2 From the herbarium to the field: new nickel hyperaccumulators in the genus Orthion |
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6.3.3 Rinorea multivenosa, the first zinc hyperaccumulating species discovered in the Amazon basin |
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6.3.4 A large number of manganese hyperaccumulating species to be discovered |
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| Chapter 7 Fossil Crustaceans in the Light of New Technologies |
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7.3 The radiation of fossil crustaceans |
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7.3.1 Revealing characters with UV light (yellow fluorescence) |
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7.3.2 Revealing characters with green light (green-orange fluorescence) |
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7.4 Exceptional preservation of fossil crustaceans |
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7.5 Ostracods and paleogeography at the end of the Paleozoic |
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| Chapter 8 The "Cyanobacteria and Microalgae" Collection in the Time of "-omics" |
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8.2 A living collection supported by research |
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8.3 New uses of the collection in basic research |
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8.3.1 Polyphasic identification and taxonomy of cyanobacteria and microalgae |
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8.3.2 Contribution to the evolutionary sciences |
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8.3.3 Contribution to the study of interactions between organisms |
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8.4 Enhancing the value of biological resources through the search for innovative bioactive molecules |
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8.5 Expertise in environmental diagnosis |
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8.6 The living collection of cyanobacteria and microalgae of today and tomorrow |
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| Chapter 9 The Collection of Cryopreserved Cells and Tissues of Vertebrates: Methods and Application |
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9.2 History of the collection |
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9.3 Can all living beings be cryopreserved9 |
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9.3.1 Collection, culture and freezing |
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9.5 Current composition of the bank |
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| Chapter 10 Herbaria, the Last Resort for Extinct Plant Species |
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10.1 Context and objectives |
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10.2 Proposed approach and protocol |
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10.3.1 Selection of target species and identification of affine species |
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10.3.2 Assessment of the viability of available seeds |
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10.3.3 Cultivation experiments on affine species of the target species |
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10.4 Discussion and conclusion |
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| Chapter 11 Ocean Cores, Climate Archives |
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11.2 The MNHN's oceanic collection |
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11.3 Development of core drilling techniques |
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11.4 Ocean cores: archives of past climate variability |
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11.5.1 Temperature proxies |
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11.5.2 Proxies of salinity |
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11.5.3 Paleo-pH proxies and carbonate ion concentration |
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11.6 Analytical techniques |
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| Chapter 12 Clarifying the Radiocarbon Calibration Curve for Ancient Egypt: The Wager of Herbaria |
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12.2 Carbon-14 (14C) dating and Egyptian chronology |
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12.2.1 The challenge of calibration |
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12.2.2 Chronology of ancient Egypt: contribution of 14C and historic debates |
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12.3 Specificities of the Egyptian landscape and the objective of the project |
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12.4 The flora of Egypt in the MNHN Herbarium |
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12.5 Analytical and statistical challenges |
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12.5.1 Selection of herbarium specimens |
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12.5.2 Preliminary results of 14C dating |
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| Chapter 13 Herbaria, a Window into the Evolutionary History of Crop Pathogens |
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13.1 Epidemics, emergences and re-emergences |
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13.2 Development of agriculture, domestication of cultivated plants and their diseases |
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13.3 Molecular biology and genomics as a tool for studying phytopathogenic micro-organisms |
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13.4 Contributions of the herbarium samples |
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13.4.2 Molecular analyses |
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13.5 How to explore a herbarium |
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13.6 Characteristics of old nucleic acids and their treatment |
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13.6.1 The particular case of viral nucleic acids |
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13.7 Xanthomonas citri pv. citri and its emergence in the Indian Ocean |
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13.8 Emergence and evolutionary history of plant pathogenic viruses: the geminivirus model |
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13.8.1 Case of a species complex responsible for an emerging disease |
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13.8.2 Case of a cryptic geminivirus |
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13.10 Acknowledgments and funding |
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| Chapter 14 The Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet: Prediction of the Risk of Invasion and the Study of its Color Variations |
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14.2 Vespa velutina: some elements of taxonomy and biology |
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14.2.1 A species: 13 colored forms |
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14.2.3 Insectivore, but not exclusively |
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14.3 Sampling of specimens |
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14.4 The origin of invasive lineages of V. velutina in France and Korea |
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14.4.1 The history of the invasion explained by genetics |
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14.4.2 A single queen at the origin of the invasive lineage in France |
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14.5 Expansion risks in Europe and worldwide |
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14.5.1 Data and methods for inferring range and predicting invasion risk |
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14.5.2 Strong expansion in Europe and the Northern Hemisphere |
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14.6 Origin of color and shape variations |
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14.6.1 The importance of collection specimens |
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14.6.2 Discordance between genetic lineages and colored forms |
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| Chapter 15 Exploring Temporal Changes in the Composition of Macroalgal Communities by Using Collections |
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15.1 On the constitution of macroalgal collections |
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15.1.3 Data associated with the herbaria |
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15.1.4 Specimens and scientific evidence |
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15.1.5 The herbarium of the Dinard maritime laboratory |
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15.2 Exploring temporal changes in species distribution |
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15.2.1 Perspectives for exploring temporal changes in species distribution |
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15.3 Exploring temporal changes in community composition |
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15.3.1 Example of the study of the Dinard Herbarium |
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15.3.2 Perspectives for exploring temporal changes in community composition |
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15.4 Conclusion: sampling and analysis strategies for the future |
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| Chapter 16 Herbaria, Witnesses of the Stakes of Biodiversity Conservation and the Impacts of Global Changes |
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16.2 Evaluation of the floristic richness and conservation issues of territories |
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16.3 Studies of introduction pathways and colonization of invasive exotic plants and pathogens |
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16.4 Analysis of the impact of pollution and changes in air quality |
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16.5 Study of phenological changes in flora as a result of climate change |
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| Chapter 17 Digital Photography In Natura in Zoology: More Biology in Natural History Collections? |
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17.1 Images and collections... for comparative biology |
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17.2 Accelerating the process of the incomplete inventory of life |
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17.3 Why more biology in natural history collections? |
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17.4 Images in the natural sciences: a collection like any other? |
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17.5 The Hemiptera of France: an exemplary iconography |
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17.6 Trait databases, query automation and bio-inspiration |
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17.7 Conclusion: a new challenge for natural history |
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| Chapter 18 The Use of Large Natural History Datasets to Respond to Current Scientific and Societal Issues |
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18.2 Making data available: a revolution |
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18.3 Challenges for data providers |
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18.3.1 Reading labels or directories |
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18.3.2 Structure of the information related to the specimens |
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18.3.3 The taxonomic framework: moving information |
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18.3.4 The importance of tracing the source of data |
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18.4 The role of access portals |
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18.4.1 The provision standards |
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18.5 The importance of scientific analysis design in appropriating the specificities of data from collections |
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18.5.1 Detecting the biases in collection data: advantages and opportunities for scientific analyses |
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18.5.2 Toward a good balance between the question and the available data |
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18.5.3 Playing the advantage of multiple spatial scales |
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18.6 Moving from raw data to sorted data that can be used for scientific analyses |
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18.6.1 From open data to open science, a responsibility for the traceability of data and operations |
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18.6.2 Toward a necessary reorganization of collaborative work |
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| Chapter 19 Is There a Need for Biocultural Collections? State of the Art and Perspectives |
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19.2 Origin of these collections |
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19.3 Collection principles and the function of collections |
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19.3.1 The role of objects in "Maussian" ethnology |
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19.3.2 Ethnobotanical collections |
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19.3.3 Biocultural collections |
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19.4 Principles for the articulation of sets |
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19.5 Description of the collections |
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19.5.1 Ethnobiological specimens |
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19.5.2 Objects and artifacts |
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| Chapter 20 Why Preserve? |
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20.1 The museum's collections: between study and heritage |
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20.2 Disrupting the equilibrium |
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20.3 Preparation and storage |
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20.4 The main principles of conservation |
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20.5 The main principles of conservation being undermined |
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20.7 The scientific value of the collections |
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| Chapter 21 Collections for Scientific Research in the 21st Century and Beyond |
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21.1 Collections in the quest for knowledge |
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21.2 Three main kinds of new uses for collections |
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21.2.1 Enriching the life sciences, human sciences and the sciences of the universe with new technologies |
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21.2.2 A pool of information on the environment |
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21.2.3 The era of digital data |
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21.3 Lessons from these new uses |
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21.3.1 The importance of richness and diversity |
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21.3.2 Information at the heart of new research |
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21.3.3 Good conservation and good practices |
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21.3.4 The importance of sets |
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21.4 Collections in 21st century science and beyond |
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| List of Authors |
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