Category
Discovery collections
Capabilities
The PBMS Archive holds more than 60,000 bird tissue samples such as liver and kidney, bones, and eggs (shells and contents) dating back to the late 1960s. Specimens are stored in jars and bags in numbered trays at -18ºC in a freezer.
Lifecycle
The PBMS Archive holds samples dating from the late 1960s.
Uniqueness
PBMS is the largest archive of bird tissue samples for ecotoxicological studies in the UK: in terms of number of samples, timescale (from 1960s) and breadth of species.
Access
See Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme.
Location
Based at UKCEH Lancaster.
Funding sources
See Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme.
Users
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See Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme.
Last updated
28 April 2022 13:27
