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                <datestamp>2024-05-24T20:13:56Z</datestamp>
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    <dc:creator>Marini, Miguel</dc:creator>
    <dc:title>Datasets of breeding records of Neotropical birds</dc:title>
    <dc:publisher>Mendeley Data</dc:publisher>
    <dc:description>There are around 2 million bird egg sets (~ 5 million eggs) collected since 1800 and deposited in more than 300 museums/institutions worldwide (for details see Marini, M.Â., L. Hall, D. Russell, J. Bates, R. McGowan, L. F. Silveira, S. K. Robinson, S. Frahnert, A. Gamauf, S. Córdoba-Córdoba, P. R. Sweet, F. R. Steinheimer, D. A. Lijtmaer, P. Tubaro, H. F. Greeney, R. Corado &amp; Heming, N.M. 2020. The five million bird eggs in the world’s museum collections are an invaluable and underused resource. The Auk, Ornithological Advances 137(4):1-7.  https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukaa036)

However, this large and untapped resource is poorly known and in large part accessible only by visiting each museum. A long-term project (&quot;Spatio-temporal variations in breeding traits of birds from the Neotropical region&quot;) started in 2014 has been recovering breeding information of Neotropical birds by visiting egg collections and taking digital photographs of egg sets and their labels/cards. So far, after 39 museums visited in Latin America, Europe and USA, the project has amassed a collection of ~ 55,000 egg sets of Neotropical birds.

This dataset has been used in several of my own studies and by graduate students of my lab (Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Aves / Bird Ecology and Conservation Lab) at the Zoology Department, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil.  You can reach many of these publications at RESEARCHGATE (Miguel Ângelo Marini (researchgate.net)), ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7300-7321), or CV LATTES (http://lattes.cnpq.br/7912919431438847).

Here, you will find parts of the 55,000-dataset associated to specific published papers. The full dataset is not available yet since my Lab is still analyzing most of it and since a large part of the dataset is still under taxonomic resolution.

The first dataset available is from the following article:
Sousa NOM, Heming NM, Marini MÂ (2024) Clutch size but not egg size associates with migration distance in South American land birds. Journal of Ornithology. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-024-02186-9
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    <dc:subject>Ecology</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Zoology</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Aves</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Tropical Region</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Breeding Season</dc:subject>
    <dc:subject>Museum</dc:subject>
    <dc:contributor id="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1707-7955">Sousa, Nadinni</dc:contributor>
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    <dc:rights>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</dc:rights>
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    <dc:date>2024-05-24T20:13:56Z</dc:date>
    <dc:date>2024-08-24T23:59:59Z</dc:date>
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