{"accessRestrictions":"Cost and payment: When a loan of material from the ESB has been approved, the applicant will be sent an invoice when the samples have been delivered according to the agreement.\nThe cost of samples from the ESB varies depending on the type of sample preparation required. We always make an individual assessment of the time required to handle the sample request. ","archiveLocations":[{"organisationName":"Swedish Museum of Natural History","role":"pointOfContact","email":"miljoprovbanken@nrm.se","address":{"deliveryPoint":"P. O. Box 50007  SE-104 05 Stockholm","country":"Sweden"},"pointOfContact":"Swedish Museum of Natural History"}],"availability":"Applications for loans of materials will now be processed five times a year. More information on how to take out a loan from the ESB can be found on the page Loan from the Environmental Specimen Bank.","boundingBoxes":[{"westBoundLongitude":11.02,"eastBoundLongitude":23.9,"southBoundLatitude":55.36,"northBoundLatitude":69.1,"bounds":"{\"type\": \"Feature\",      \"properties\": {},      \"geometry\": {        \"type\": \"Polygon\",        \"coordinates\": [[[11.02, 55.36], [11.02, 69.1], [23.9, 69.1], [23.9, 55.36], [11.02, 55.36]]]      }}","coordinates":"[[[11.02, 55.36], [11.02, 69.1], [23.9, 69.1], [23.9, 55.36], [11.02, 55.36]]]"}],"description":"The Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) is an essential part of the monitoring of contaminants in the Swedish fauna. It is also of importance for studies of biological diversity and the effects of noxious substances on threatened animal species. The ESB has one of the oldest and greatest collections of environmental specimens in the world. The oldest samples are collected in the mid-1960s, and for some species continuous series of samples from the late 1960s up to now are stored.","id":"9d6b1538-7403-4e87-9423-8c97d88e8b69","lineage":"The ESB holds samples of various species representing different parts of the environment. For example fish, blue mussels, seabird eggs and marine mammals from the marine environment. Freshwater fish and otter, representing the limnic environment. Terrestrial species as e.g. elk, brown bear, wolf, wolverine, lynx. Birds of prey representing different types of environment depending on species.\nSmaller animals like fish and blue mussels are stored whole while parts of organs are stored for larger species.\nRare and threatened species: Swedish legislation on hunting and shooting rights contains certain regulations specially intended to further nature conservancy, education and research. The Game Act states that certain rare and partly threatened birds and mammals become state property if they are killed, trapped, or found dead, irrespective of any hunting rights involved.\nThese animals (or parts of them) are sent to the Swedish Museum of Natural History where samples of tissues and organs from the most interesting and valuable species are continuously prepared and stored in the ESB.\nSwedish contaminant monitoring: A large part of the samples stored in the ESB is collected through the national environmental monitoring programmes. These long and continuous series of biological samples are used, among other things, for: \nmeasuring levels of known environmental contaminants\nsearching for new environmental contaminants\nfollowing how levels of newly discovered environmental contaminants have changed over time\nmonitoring harmful effects of environmental contaminants in organisms\nThe ESB also stores older samples of animal tissues and organs donated from various research projects.","metadataContacts":[{"organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","role":"pointOfContact","email":"jgar@ceh.ac.uk","pointOfContact":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"}],"metadataDate":"2022-12-22T14:13:20","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://www.nrm.se/en-GB/forskningochsamlingar/miljoforskningochovervakning/miljoprovbanken/lanurmiljoprovbanken.9006605.html","name":"Loan from the Environmental Specimen Bank","function":"Website","type":"OTHER"}],"physicalStates":[{"value":"Frozen (-80 degrees C)","uri":"http://vocab.ceh.ac.uk/esb#frozen-80"},{"value":"Frozen (-20 degrees C)","uri":"http://vocab.ceh.ac.uk/esb#frozen-20"},{"value":"Air dried","uri":"http://vocab.ceh.ac.uk/esb#airdry"}],"resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9d6b1538-7403-4e87-9423-8c97d88e8b69"}],"storage":"The majority of the material is stored at a temperature of -25°C and a smaller part at -80° C. Materials such as feathers and eggshells are stored dry at room temperature.","temporalExtent":{"begin":"1960-01-01"},"title":"The Swedish Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) (Sweden)","type":"sampleArchive","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9d6b1538-7403-4e87-9423-8c97d88e8b69","website":"https://www.nrm.se/english/researchandcollections/environmentalresearchandmonitoring/environmentalspecimenbank.9000848_en.html"}