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Collections Report 2014

Overview of activities The Barcelona Natural History Museum has maintained a voluminous and numerous scientific heritage collection for over 130 years. Its holdings increase through acquisitions in the form of donations, field collections and exchanges. All material that arrives at the museum requires prior preparation (herbarium sheets, dried insects, skeletons, skins, whole animals in preserving fluid, consolidations, thin sections, etc.). From year to year the established preventive conservation protocols established are applied along with restoration protocols when necessary. All specimens from all spheres: geological, botanical and zoological, pass through a procedure involving registration, inventory and cataloguing. Currently the inventories and catalogues are produced as databases, i.e., there has been a process of digitisation. In some cases, the specimens are identified and studied by the museum’s own specialists, in others by external specialists, which means that part of the specimens go through a revision process. Information associated with the collection’s specimens, once validated by conservators, are published on the Internet. The collections have an evident value and scientific use as they are the subject of study by Museum researchers and investigators from all over. The collection also has a cultural use when it directly participates in activities involving schools, families and the general public, as well as in the Museum’s own temporary exhibitions and those of other centres. The projects that are undertaken generate results that are communicated through the media and the social networks. Scientific research into the Museum’s holdings, as well as technical work undertaken with the collections, generates knowledge that is published via congresses, symposiums and scientific articles. ________________________ The content of this report summary has been produced from the reports produced by the conservators and by other collections technicians:

Jordi Agulló, Miriam Aixart, David Bertran, Berta Caballero, Carles Curto, Yael Diaz, Jaume Gallemí, Eulàlia Garcia Franquesa, Neus Ibáñez, Glòria Masó, Neus Nualart, Meritxell Piera, Javi Quesada, Francesc Uribe, Vicent Vicedo and Maria Vila. All the work undertaken during the year 2014 was directed and executed by those people responsible for the collections, conservators and technicians alike. For some projects the support of external companies was required; in others, specific tasks were commissioned to experts in different natural history and science disciplines. Some projects also involved students on work experience schemes. And the production of some projects was undertaken with the inestimable and constant support of the museum’s collaborators, who in a voluntary capacity help with those collections that are closest to their interests in the natural history field. We would like to thank all of them for the excellent work that they have done!!

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Inventory summary

The Barcelona Natural History Museum maintains a collection of over three million registered units which,

once registered, inventoried, catalogued and digitised, will be suitable for scientific consultation of the

specimens and of their associated information. These registration units correspond to nearly four million

copies that the Museum conserves. Collections data, December 2014

Collection name Registration units (Inventoried + non-

inventoried

Number of specimens

Germplasm bank (1) 3,601 3,601

Living plants 19,479 19,479

Herbarium * 890,263 890,263

Mineralogy 22,745 22,745

Petrology 16,414 27,409

Palaeontology * 142,090 218,570

Sound recordings 38,525 43,425

Non-arthropod invertebrates 85,998 730,626

Arthropods * 1,828,235 1,828,235

Chordates 33 ,974

45,865

Salvador Collection (2) 4,198 28,233

TOTAL 3,085,522 3,858,451 Note (*) Estimated data. (1) The Germplasm bank has 3,601 batches of seeds, which contain over 10,975,600 seeds. (2) The herbaria of the Salvador Collection are included in the Herbarium.

What is documented are the registration units (specimens or batches of specimens). A batch is a set of animals or plants or fossils of the same species, collected by the same person, on the same day and in the same place. What is conserved is the number of specimens.

Acquisition of collection items The Museum’s collection has grown by 13,092 registration units.

Collection name Purchase Donation Field collection

Old collection

Others (exchange)

Total

Germplasm bank 24 11 50 153 238

Living plants 800 518 1,318

Herbarium 1,300 186 1,486

Mineralogy 6,960 151 7,111 Petrology 364 14 31 409 Palaeontology 182 75 257 Sound recordings 99 99 Arthropods 375 425 800 Non-arthropod invertebrates

134 90 586 810

Chordates 564 564 TOTAL 824 9,890 1,271 768 339 13,09

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Preparation of specimens The process of preparation of natural history specimens is essential in many cases. Much of the material

arrives fresh or frozen (plants and animals) or soiled and with impurities (minerals, rocks and fossils).

Without preparation work, the specimens could not be definitively incorporated into the collection.

Preparation is the first step towards good long-term conservation.

Collection name Preparation. Observations

Germplasm bank 67 cleanings of seeds. 129 weighings of fresh weight. 89 scans. 129 dehydrations. 22 germinations, 4 viability tests

Living plants Gardening and nursery work

Herbarium 3,991 herbarium sheets mounted

Mineralogy 46 micromounts

Petrology

Palaeontology 74 micropalaeontology cleanings, 122 invertebrate cleanings, 63 preparations of invertebrates by abraser, 10 ultrasonic cleanings of invertebrates Sound recordings 500 revisions of tape reels (analog recordings)

Non-arthropod invertebrates

Arthropods 1,627 preparations

Chordates 1,453 specimens prepared

Preventive conservation and restoration Preventive conservation work includes the monitoring of environmental conditions, monitoring and treatment in the case of pests, anti-pest treatments, handling management, the production of reports on the state of conservation, permanent packaging and packaging for transport, among others. Restoration work is restricted to stopping active degradation, to improving the state of conservation and to re-establishing aesthetic quality in the case of exhibitions. Conservation work is carried out by everyone who works with the collections, whether managing, documenting, preparing, revising, etc.

- In the mineralogy collection, a total of 11,300 minerals underwent visual inspection.

- In the palaeontology collection a total of 17 fossil consolidations were carried out and the 9,735 fossil packagings were changed.

- In the sound recordings collection, the state of conservation of 905 elements was revised.

- In the collection of non-arthropod invertebrates, the contents were prepared to edit Tyvek tags of 35,520 registration units. There were changes of container and refilling of liquids and marking of jars for 1,292 non-arthropod invertebrates. Plus improvements were made in the conservation of dry samples corresponding to 58 molluscs.

- In the arthropods collection, insecticide was changed in 140 insect boxes. Forty-five entomological cases were placed in quarantine.

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In the Museum’s Preventive Conservation and Restoration Laboratory, during 2014, the following tasks were carried out. Preventive conservation interventions

Type of intervention

Number of pieces intervened

intervenidas Pest control 1,300,000 approx.

Inspection of spaces and warehouses 2,027,000 approx.

Recording and analysis of environmental conditions 2,027,000 approx.

Revision of the state of conservation 35,000 approx.

Loans (special packaging) 29

Provisional packaging and transport (execution) 642

Permanent packaging (design, execution and conditioning) 14,500 approx.

Restauration interventions

PROJECT TYPE PROJECT NAME Number of pieces intervened

PROGRAMMED (56%) Salvador Collection 175 EMERGENCIES (44%) Museu Blau 23

Nature Laboratory 117

EXTERNALISED Salvador Collection 2 TOTAL 317

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Registration, inventory and computerised data Registration The registration of collections is the process of assigning a unique number to each unit (specimen, batch) and documenting each of them with a minimum of information in the registration book or the database. The registrations entered correspond to new accessions and material from the old holdings that was not yet registered.

Collection name Registrations carried out in 2014 Germplasm bank 365

Living plants 1,318

Herbarium 15,288

Mineralogy 7,112

Petrology 409

Palaeontology 3,446

Sound recordings 0

Non-arthropod vertebrates 810

Arthropods 15,808

Chordates 1,687

Salvador Collection 509

Total 46,752

Inventory The inventory covers all the registration units (documentation units) that have already been processed. Some 15% of the Museum’s heritage holdings are inventoried, these holdings correspond to 490,000 registration units.

Collection name

Registration units

inventoried in 2014

Total inventori

ed at 31/12/2

014

Pending inventor

y

Total holdings

%

inventoried

Germplasm bank 365 3,551 50 3,601 98.61

Living plants 1,318 19,479 0 19,479 100.00

Herbarium 15,288 104,064 786,198 890,262 11.69

Mineralogy 7,112 20,028 2,717 22,745 88.05

Petrology 409 16,414 0 16,414 100,00

Palaeontology 3,446 89,090 53,000 142,090 62.70

Sound recordings(1) 0 38,425 100 38,525 99.74

Non-arthropod invertebrates

810 85,998 0 85,998 100.00

Arthropods 15,808 76,679 1,751,556

1,828,235

4.19

Chordates 1,687 33,691 283 33,974 99.17

Salvador Collection 509 4,198 0 4,198 100.00

TOTAL 46,752 491,617 2,593,904

3,085,521

15.93 (1)

Data 2013

Several collections have their inventories up-to-date and can assume annual growth. In these collections, efforts are completely focused on completing the databases and publishing them on the Internet, admitting new entries, studying the holdings and producing catalogues.

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In the more voluminous collections, this is where the percentage of inventory presents the lowest values, although the absolute inventory values are high. In these collections, documentation projects are the priority

objective.

Digitisation Fifteen percent of the holdings are digitised, corresponding to 480,000 registration units.

Collection name Digitised during 2014

Total digitised Total to be digitised

% Digitised

Germplasm bank 412 4,063 3,601 112.83

Living plants 1,318 19,215 19,479 98.64

Herbarium 15,288 104,064 890,262 11.69

Mineralogy 7,111 22,745 22,745 100.00

Petrology 390 18,830 16,414 114.72

Palaeontology 7,796 81,766 142,090 57.54

Sound recordings(1) 7,529 38,325 38,525 99.48

Non-arthropod invertebrates

2,742 85,998 85,998 100.00

Arthropods 17,899 67,872 1,828,235 3.71

Chordates 1,859 33,973 33,974 100.00

3D images 55 185 0 100.00

Salvador Collection 509 4,198 4,198 100.00

62,908 481,234 3,085,522 15.60 The data in the table correspond to registration units (documentation units). Germplasm Bank: All of the bank’s registration

units are kept digitised, even those that have been withdrawn. The Petrology collection maintains, in the database,

information on rocks that were in the collection at one time but are no longer physically present. (1) Data 2013. Revision projects Not all specimens from the collections are identified to the level of gender and species. The scientific value of the information associated with the specimens lies in knowing to what species they belong. For that reason, every year, a part of the unidentified specimens are revised. These revisions are conducted by experts in each group to be revised. During 2014, a total of eight revision projects were undertaken, which have enabled the identification of over 7,000 registrations.

- Moragas Collection, petrology: 2,063 registrations revised

- Revision of the Large Blocks

- Revision of the brachiopods of the Spanish Lower Jurassic: 617 specimens

- Revision of the flora of the Myocene of the Cerdanya in the Villalta Collection: 200 registration units

- Revision of the Nassaridae family (molluscs): 1,500 registration units

- Revision of the osteological collection of ursids: 26 specimens

- Revision of the birds collection: 881 specimens

- Revisions Salvador Collection in total: 1,896 registration units: 703 minerals, 191 rocks, 148 marine invertebrates (31 bryozoans, 5 sponges, 23 echinoderms, 89 cnidarians), 164 molluscs, 150 arthropods, 115 fish, 28 reptiles, birds, mammals, 40 lichens and fungi, 35 algae, 110 mosses and liverworts, 83 pomona fruit models, 380 apothecary jars.

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Publication of data online The Museum has over 300,000 data items from collection specimens published online. Some of the data are located in different places on the web, as they form part of different projects and are geared towards different audiences. Some 7.6% is consultable online, corresponding to 227,750 registration units.

The collection of living plants can be consulted on the Barcelona Metropolitan Area website.

GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facilities) This public website publishes biodiversity data from natural history collections. The Museum contributes data on zoology, botany and palaeontology. The data can be consulted via the website (www.gbif.es) and the international portal (www.gbif.org). Many of the herbarium sheets are published in images at http://www.gbif.es/servImg/paginas/index.php?CollectionCode=BC. e-MuseumPlus The digitised collections at MuseumPlus can be viewed online through e-Museumplus. These are sound recordings, non-arthropod invertebrates (molluscs and general zoology), arthropods, chordates, mineralogy and petrology. Only data verified by conservators can be viewed online. Zoology collections: http://zoologiaenlinia.bcn.cat/eMuseumPlus Mineralogy and petrology collections: http://geologiaenlinia.bcn.cat/eMuseumPlus Taxo&Map This is an application designed for immersion in data of the MCNB collections. Taxo&Map offers consultation options complementary to those provided by other routes. The geo-referenced collection data can be transferred to maps. Searches by scientific name and by geographical location http://taxomap.bioexplora.cat/taxomap.php JSTOR Global Plants portal that hosts herbaria data from all around the world. http://plants.jstor.org

Collection name GBIF e-MuseumPlus Taxo&Map GPM Jstor Wikicollecta NCD

Germplasm bank 2,994 4

Living plants ---------- 19,215

Herbarium 81,549 1,426 30

Mineralogy ---------- 9,491

Petrology ---------- 8,439 11

Paleontology 7,351 21

Sound recordings 1,964

Non-arthropods invertebrates

23,124 36,151 21,872 108 39

Arthropods 14,017 28,948

Chordates 20,030 31,492 2

3D Images

Salvador Collection

Total 149,065 116,485 21,872 19,215 1,426 110 105

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Wikicollecta Space for consultation of prominent collections of the Natural History Museum of Barcelona. http://www.bioexplora.cat/WIKICOLLECTA/index.php/ca/ NCD (Natural Collections Description) This tool allows location of the descriptions of collections. In other words, when a collection or parts of it have not yet been inventoried and studied, a description sheet can be produced, explaining the contents. The Museum has a tool that allows the creation, management and dissemination of each of these descriptions. Each collection has one or two description sheets based on the standard (NCD) complemented with descriptors typical of other metadata schemes. http://www.bioexplora.cat/ncd/llista

Scientific research projects The Museum’s conservators participate in different research projects within the field of their expertise.

- Floristic Atlas of the Pyrenees. Funding: OPCC-POCTEFA (European Union)

- Biostratigraphy and Paleobiography of the Tethys: Programme “Biostratigraphy and Paleobiogeography of Macro-foraminifera”. CGL2011-25581 Biostratigraphy of rudists in platforms of the Tethys Upper Cretaceous.

- Local adaptation and sexual selection (PI. Joan Carles Senar, other investigators Francesc Uribe)

- Monitoring actions of the populations of cave-dwelling invertebrates. Subsidised by the Catalan Government’s Ministry for the Environment.

- Monitoring of pollinators at the Botanical Garden.

- Agricultural intensification, biodiversity and functioning of pollination in the Mediterranean region. Development of environmentally-friendly methods of cultivation. University of Barcelona.

- Inventory of the coleopters of El Prat de Llobregat. Miguel Prieto, Glòria Masó, Berta Caballero

- Study of the abundance of food for the Great Tit family at the Can Catà estate.

- Urban Ecology: ecology of the common house sparrow. Grants

- Ex-situ Project (Germplasm Bank) €15,000

- Floristic Atlas of the Pyrenees. Funding: OPCC-POCTEFA (European Union)

- CGL2011-25581 Biostratigraphy of rudists in platforms of the Tethys Upper Cretaceous.

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Cultural and scientific use of the museum’s collections

Consultations Consultations are the route of access for researchers to specimens in the collections, and they take place at the Museum or alternatively through consultations with the staff responsible for the collections.

Non-arthropod invertebrates refers to websites not collection objects. Online consultations refer also to the consultations received by the museum’s databases published online. During 2014, the GBIF data portal also underwent a major change in its structure and some services were not operational, for this reason there is no data available on the real number of consultations made in relation to the Museum’s collections. In the case of data published through e-plus, the consultations were:

- Geology collections (18,091 registration units published, of minerals and rocks): 432 visits received

- Zoology collections (98,555 registration units published): 654 visits received

Collection name Scientific consultatio

ns on site

Elements consulted

Scientific consultations online

Elements consulted

Cultural consultations

Germplasm bank 4 13 12

Living plants

Herbarium 41 --- 43 396 Mineralogy 0 154

Petrology 4 47 1 11 10

Palaeontology 10 2,416 Sound recordings 1 4 1

Non-arthropod invertebrates

22 1,724 668 3,684 10

Arthropods 67 Not counted

9 12 30

Chordates 47 529 2

Salvador Collection

19 1,944 11 11 100

Head of collections

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Total 215 6,394 745 4,114 319

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Loans The number of loans varies from year to year according to the research projects underway in the scientific community, the number of natural history exhibitions organised each year, the number of activities currently in progress or those that are programmed again.

Collection name Scientific

loans Specimens

loaned Cultural

loans

Specimens

loaned

Museum loans

activity

Specimens loaned

Sample provided

No. of specimens

Germplasm bank 29 223

Living plants

Herbarium 15 3,800 7 11 Mineralogy 1 13

Petrology 12 13

Paleontology 2 31 3 47 Sounds 1 30

Non-Arthropods invertebrates 10 407 1 25 1 20

Arthropods (*) 40 3,581

Chordates 3 3 2 2 2 78 Salvador 4 285

Total 103 8,330 4 45 18 163 8 31

(requested loans + commissioned revisions are counted) Exhibitions Some 0.62 % of the collection is on exhibition. If the Garden exhibition is not taken into account, the volume of the collection exhibited corresponds to 0.12% of the holdings.

Collection name No. specimens in the

permanent exhibition

Number of specimens

in temporary

exhibitions

Germplasm bank 85

Botanical Garden, living plants 19,215

Herbarium 7 9

Mineralogy 949 13

Petrology 227

Palaeontology 273

Sound recordings 30

Non-arthropod invertebrates 181 16 Arthropods 2,043 94

Chordates 494 11

Salvador Collection 448 356

TOTAL 23,952 499

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Communication The activities carried out in the different collections as well as the knowledge deriving from them have been reported in different media. Television

- TV3. Espai Terra. 24/04/2014. “Jardí Botànic Històric”. Cori Calero

- TV3. El medi ambient. 23/ 09/2014. “Els colors del blauet i la contaminació”.

- TV3. Què, qui, com. 13/11/2014 “La il·lustració científica”.

Printed press

- ARA. 16/02/2014. “La cara oculta del museu”. Mònica Lopez

- ARA. 11/02/2014. “Un hotel d’abelles per a pol·linitzadors solitaris”. Mònica Lopez

- El Periódico. 17/03/2014. “El banco de semillas de Barcelona preserva más de 3.500 muestras”. Antonio Madridejos

- Eldiario.es. 27/06/2014. “Urko, el goril·la que va desafiar el poder”. J. J. Caballero

- Muntanya magazine. 01/08/2014. “Parlem de Bioespeleologia”. Oleguer Escolà

- ARA. 08/09/2014. “Una dècada de falcons a Barcelona”. Mario Martín

- La Marea. 11/2014. “Colmenas urbanas contra la extinción de las abejas”. María Cappa

- SINC. 15/12/2014. “Aves sin miedo a la jungla del asfalto”. Adeline Marcos

Participation in communication activities

- Participation in the edition of Ask a Curator.

- Talks at Can Serra (Cardedeu) on rocks and minerals that subsequently generated, with samples worked on during the talks, a small exhibition in the hall of the building that was shown for a period of one month.

- BioBlitzBCN 2014

- JBB visit multimedia guide

- Organisation of the 15th National Congress and 12th Ibero-American Congress on Ethology. Book of abstracts. Sociedad Española de Etología, Barcelona. 3-5 September 2014

- 1st Museums Week on Twitter

- Planta’t al Botànic

- Science Week 14 to 23 November 2014

- Talk at the Institut Quatre Cantons (secondary school) on 27 October titled: “La feina de conservació de Petrologia: el dia a dia i el vincle amb Planeta Vida” (Petrology conservation work: day to day and the link with Planet Life).

- Talk at IES Tres Tombs (secondary school), Barcelona.

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PUBLICATIONS Articles published (17) Carrillo, M., Alcántara, E., Taverna, A., Paredes, R., Garcia-Franquesa, E., 2014. Descripción osteológica del

rorcual común (Balaenoptera physalus, Linnaeus, 1758) del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 12: 93-123

Curto, C., Fabre, J. 2014. The Panasqueira mines. Castelo Branco district, Portugal. The Mineralogical Record. 45(1): 11-55.

Curto, C., Menor-Salván, C., Fabre, J. 2014. Panasqueira: Neufund und Neubestimmungen. Lapis Mineralien Magazin. 39(7/8): 54-63.

Folia, M., J. Agulló & F. Uribe (2014). Descripción de los fondos de un museo de ciencias naturales a nivel de colecciones con el estándar Natural Collections Description (NCD). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural - Sección Aula, Museos y Colecciones de Historia Natural, 2:39-47. http://historia.bio.ucm.es/rsehn/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=39&w=262

Garcia-Franquesa, E. S. Gago, J. Agulló, B. Caballero-López, G. Masó, J. Quesada & F. Uribe (2014). El registro digital de colecciones : un cambio significativo en la documentación de las colecciones zoológicas del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona ( MCNB ). Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural - Sección Aula, Museos y Colecciones de Historia Natural, 1: 1-8. http://historia.bio.ucm.es/rsehn/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=35&w=221

Germain, J. F. Uribe & O. Boet (2014). Participació de voluntaris en l ’estudi de la biodiversitat : un balanç amb resultats positius. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, 78: 39-46.. http://ichn.iec.cat/pdf/Butlleti_78/05_2014_JGermain_et_al.pdf

González-Fernández, B., Menéndez-Casares, E., Vicedo, V., Aramburu, C. & Caus, E. 2014. New insights about the Upper Jurassic – Lower Cretaceous sedimentary successions from Asturias (NW Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Iberian Geology, 40 (3): 409-430.

Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A. & Gallemí, J. Absurdaster a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position. Cretaceous Research, 48: 235–249.

Pagani-Núñez, E. F. Uribe, S. Hernández-Gómez; G. Muñoz & JC Senar (2014). Habitat structure and prey composition generate contrasting effects on carotenoid-based coloration of great tit Parus major nestlings. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113: 547-555

Pérez, Marta; Muñoz, Olga; Hervàs, Natàlia; Ibáñez, Neus; Aurell-Garrido, Josep & Garcia-Franquesa, Eulàlia. 2015. El Gabinete de Historia natural Salvador: intervencions de conservación preventiva y curativa e inventario preliminar. Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. Secc. Aula, Museos y Colecciones, 2: 87-99.

Piuz, A., Meister, C. & Vicedo, V. 2014. New alveolinoidea from the Cenomanian of Oman. Cretaceous Research, 50: 344—360.

Quesada, J., Uribe, F. & Carrillo; J.G. (Editors). 2014. VX Congreso Nacional y XII Iberoamericano de Etología. Libro de resúmenes. Sociedad Española de Etología, Barcelona.

Santos, X., Mateos, E., Bros, V., Brotons, Ll., De Mas, E., Herraiz, J.A., Herrando, S., Miño, A., Olmo-Vidal, J. M., Quesada, J., Ribes, J., Sabaté, S., Sauras-Yera, T., Serra, A., Vallejo, V.R. & Viñolas, A. 2014. "Is response to fire influenced by dietary specialization and mobility? A comparative study with multiple animal assemblages”. PLOS ONE. PLoS ONE 9(2): e88224. (SCI)

Senar, J.C., Conroy, M.J., Quesada, J. & Mateos-González, F. 2014. "Selection based on the size of the black tie of the Great tit may be reversed in urban habitats". Ecology & Evolution. 7; 4(13): 2625-32 (SCI)

Uribe, F & M. Prieto (2014). Georreferenciar antiguas colecciones de Ciencias Naturales: de la artesania a la técnica. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural - Sección Aula, Museos y Colecciones de Historia Natural, 1: 12pp. http://historia.bio.ucm.es/rsehn/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=35&w=234

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Vicedo, V., Berlanga, J.A. & Serra-Kiel, J. 2014. Paleocene larger foraminifera from the Yucatán Peninsula (SE

Mexico). Notebooks on Geology, 14 (4): 41—68. Vila, Maria; Pérez, Marta; Muñoz, Olga & Garcia-Franquesa, Eulàlia. 2014. Two examples of preventive

conservation actions in the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (MCNB): inspection of specimens and substitution of packaging. Journal of Paleontological Techniques, 13: 65-69.

Articles in the press (1) Curto, C. 2015. Building a future: the Micromount collection-laboratory of the MCNB. Geological Curator. (at

press) Participation in congresses and symposiums (13)

2nd Meeting of Natural History collections technicians. Museu del Ter. Manlleu. 18 November 2014

BioBlitzBcn 2014. 5th Open Sessions on Naturalist Research. Dates: 30-31/05/2014, at the Parc del Laberint d’Horta.

AHIM Annual Meeting at the Real Jardín Botànico, Madrid 27 November 2014

Font i Quer scientific session, seed of the future: Challenges in Catalan botany for the 12nd century, IEC 2 December 2014

7th Francesc Español Sessions. MCNB, Barcelona 15/11/2014.

22nd Spanish Ornithology Congress. Madrid-6-9 December 2014 International European Echinoderms Conference 2014. Portsmouth (United Kingdom). Year: 2014. Organising body/institution: Portsmouth University.

International Geological Correlation Programme Project 609. Bucharest (Romania) Year: 2014. IGCP 609 (UNESCO), Earthtime EU and GeoEcoMar (Romania).

SMMP (Society of Mineral Museum Professionals) Meeting. Munich, October, 2014

TecniAcustica, Murcia 29-31 October

XIV Giornate di Paleontologia (congresso annuale della Società Paleontologica Italiana). Bari (Itàlia). Year: 2014. Università degli Studi di Bari and CISMUS (Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi per la Museologia Scientifica).

15th National Congress and 12th Ibero-American Ethology Congress. 3-5 September 2014 Barcelona (Spain).

XVI Iberian Entomology Congress, Badajoz. Dates: 2-4 October 2014. Papers presented at congresses and symposiums (16) Aixart, M. “Banc de germoplasma del Jardí Botànic de Barcelona.” 2nd Meeting of Natural History collections

technicians. Museu del Ter. Manlleu. 18 November 2014 Caballero-López B & Masó, G. “Els Museus d’Història Natural: un pont entre el passat i el futur”. 2nd

Meeting of Natural History Musems of Catalonia collection technicians. Organised by the Museu del Ter (Manlleu), 18/11/2014.

Caballero-López B & Masó, G. “Les col·leccions d‘Artròpodes: passat, present i futur”. 7th Francesc Español Sessions. 15/11/2014.

Curto, C. Micromount collections an opportunity for minerals museums. SMMP Meeting. Munich, October, 2014.

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Del Canto, i. & Quesada, J. 2014. “ Explorando atributos ambientales urbanos con Google Street View: un

ejemplo con puntos de conteos de aves”. 22nd Spanish Ornithology Congress. Madrid-6-9 December 2014 (Poster).

Díaz-Acha, Yael, Díaz-Ontiveros, Iria. La col·lecció de Grans Blocs: 1907-1952. 2nd Meeting of Natural History collections tecnicians. Museu del Ter. Manlleu. 18 November 2014

Gallemí, J. Title: The cretaceous echinoids of Ormeniş (Braşov, Perşani Mountains, Eastern Carpathians): systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeographic significance. Presentation: Spoken. Congress: International Geological Correlation Programme Project 609. Publication: Abstract book. Locality: Bucharest (Romania) + trips through the eastern and southern Carpathians. Year: 2014 Organising body/institution: IGCP 609 (UNESCO), Earthtime EU and GeoEcoMar (Romania).

Gallemí., J Title: The cretaceous echinoids of Ormeniş (Braşov, Perşani Mountains, Eastern Carpathians): systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeographic significance. Presentation: Spoken. Congress: European Echinoderms Conference 2014. Publication: Abstract book. Locality: Portsmouth (United Kingdom). Year: 2014 Organising body/institution: Portsmouth University.

Izquierdo, J.; Ferrer, X. & Quesada, J. “Dues espècies mediterrànies en la gran ciutat: el repte urbà del gafarró i el tallarol capnegre a Barcelona”. 7th Francesc Español Collaborators’ Meeting. 15 November 2014

Izquierdo, J.; Ferrer, X.; Herrando, S.; Anton, M. & Quesada, J. 2014 “Dos especies mediterráneas en la gran ciudad: el reto urbano del Verdecillo y la Curruca cabecinegra en Barcelona.” 22nd Spanish Ornithology Congress. Madrid-6-9 December 2014 (Poster).

Lorenzo Consorti, Gianluca Frijia, Vicent Vicedo & Esmeralda Caus.‘Taberina' bingistani Henson (1948), un fossile guida per i depositi di piattaforma carbonatica prossimale del Cenomaniano. Poster. Congress: XIV Giornate di Paleontologia (congresso annuale della Società Paleontologica Italiana). Publication: Abstract book. Location: Bari (Italy). Year: 2014 Organising body/institution: Università degli Studi di Bari and CISMUS (Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi per la Museologia Scientifica).

Masó, G. & Caballero, B. “DE LA CREACIÓN A LA DIFUSIÓN. La colección entomológica del MCNB.” 16th Iberian Entomology Congress, Badajoz. Dates: 2-4 October 2014. Poster

Quesada, J. “Recerca a partir de la col·lecció d’ocells del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona”. Spoken presentation. 2nd Meeting of Natural History collections of Catalonia. 18 November 2014

Senar, J.C., Conroy, M.J., Quesada, J. & Mateos-González, F. 2014.” Tamaño de la corbata negra y supervivencia en el carbonero común: un ejemplo de selección divergente inversa entre el bosque y la ciudad” 15th National Congress and 11st Ibero-American Ethology Congress. 3-5 Septiembre 2014 Barcelona (Spain). (Spoken presentation)

Torres, R. Cardona, J, Garcia-Franquesa, E & Vila, M. 2014. Causas, efectos y soluciones de vibraciones en ejemplares de museu expuestos en vitrina. 45th Spanish Acoustics Congress. 8th Iberian Acoustics Congress. European Symposium on Smart Cities and Environmental Acoustics. Paper. TecniAcustica, Múrcia 29-31 October. Pp: 939-946

Tüysüz, Okan; Ismail Ömer Yilmaz, Ş. Can Genç, Ercan Ozcan, Hans Egger, Jaume Gallemí. Title: A climatic event in the Cretaceous Palaeogene boundary, Kocaeli Peninsula, NW Turkey. Presentation: Poster. Congress: International Geological Correlation Programme Project 609. Publication: Abstract book. Locality: Bucharest (Romania) + trips to the eastern and southern Carpathians. Year: 2014 organising body/institution: IGCP 609 (UNESCO), Earthtime EU AND GeoEcoMar (Romania).

Uribe, F. Testimonis de la diversitat en èpoques anteriors a la nostra. 2nd Meeting of Natural History collections technician. Museu del Ter. Manlleu. 18 November 2014.

PhD theses directed

Robles-Salcedo, R. 2014. La Familia Siderolitidae (macroforaminíferos del Cretácico superior): arquitectura de la concha, bioestratigrafía, distribución paleoambiental y paleobiogeografía. Tesis doctoral (Co-directed by Dr. Esmeralda Caus and Dr. Vicent Vicedo). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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Books

Werschky, S., Curto, C. 2014. Gold for Collectors. Mineral Up Editions. La Palma de Cervelló. 265pp.

Gómez, D. 2014. Atlas de la Flora vascular de los Pirineos. Boletín de la AHIM 16: 39-40. http://www.ahim.org/html/BAHIM16/BoletinAHIM_16_2014_Gomez.pdf

Articles that contain Listed specimens (34 articles, > 2,650 registration units)

Listed specimens refer to all those specimens of the collections that have undergone study and appear referenced in scientific articles. Therefore, they are a part of the collection that has been studied and has produced certain scientific results. The authors are external researchers. Although there are also listed specimens in articles by the conservators of the collections. 1) Listed specimens from the palaeontology collection (5 articles, 49 listed fossils) Barrón, E., Postigo-Mijarra, J.M. & Diéguez, C. 2014. The late Miocene macroflora of the La Cerdanya Basin

(Eastern Pyrenees, Spain): towards a synthesis. Paleontographica, 291 (1-6), 85–129. Forner, E. 2014a. Calzadina segurai gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Albià de Cabanes de l'Arc

(la Plana Alta, conca del Maestrat). Nemus, 4: 17-26. Forner, E. 2014b. Primera cita de Pygurus (Pygurus) montmollini (L. Agassiz, 1836) (Echinodermata:

Echinoidea) a Ares del Maestrat. Nemus, 4: 143-147. Forner, E., Querol, P. 2014. Segona cita d'Eustoma forneri, Calzada, 1996 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de

l'Hauterivià de Cinctorres (conca del Maestrat). Nemus, 4: 157-160. Marmi J., Gomez, B., Martín-Closas, C., Villalba-Breva, S., Daviero-Gomez, V. 2014. Diversified fossil plant

assemblages from the Maastrichtian in Isona (southeastern Pyrenees). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 206, 45–59.

2) Listed specimens from the non-arthropod invertebrates collection (three articles, over five specimens listed) Madurell, T.; Zabala, M.; Dominguez-Carrió, C. & Gili JM. (2013). Bryozoan faunal composition and

community structure from the continental shelf off Cap de Creus (Northwestern Mediterranean). Journal of Sea Research, 83: 123-136

Quintana Cardona J. (2010). Truncatellina beckmanni sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Vertiginidae: Truncatellininae ), una nueva especie endémica de Menorca (Islas Baleares , Mediterráneo occidental). Spira,3: 149-158

Tarruella, A.; Corbella, J.; Guillén, G. & Alba, D. (2013). Moitessieria ripacurtiae sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Moitessieridae), una nova espècie de gastròpode estigobi del Pont de Suert (Alta Ribagorça, Catalunya, Espanya). Spira, 5 (1-2): 5-13. 16

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3) Listed specimens from the arthropods collection (22 articles, some 2,600 registration units figured) Arteaga, O., Kuntman, Antó, Pascual, Canillas & Bertran, E. , 2014. Mueller matrix microscopy on a Morpho

buttery. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (ICO-23 volume), at press. Bahillo de la Puebla, P. & López-Colón, J.I., 2014. Psilotrix constantini, especie nueva de Dasytidae de la

Península Ibérica (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 95-103. Barrientos, J.A., Nel·lo, M., Brañas, N., Mederos, J. & Masó, G., 2014. Arañas rupícolas (Arachnida, Araneae)

del Montcau (Barcelona, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 24: 65–73. Diéguez Fernández, J.M., 2014. Catálogo de los Coleoptera de la Sierra de Collserola (Barcelona, NE de

España): primeros resultados. Arquivos Entomolóxicos, 10: 235-264 Hernando, C. & Comas, J., 2014. Un nuevo Domene Fauvel, 1885 hipogeo del Alto Atlas (Marruecos)

(Coleoptera: Sataphylinidae: Paederinae). Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 105-110. Mederos-López, J., Caballero-López, B. & Masó Ros, G., 2014. Dolichopeza (Dolichopeza) hispanica

Mannheims, 1951 (Diptera: Tipulidae), primera cita para Cataluña y confirmación para la Península Ibérica. Revista gaditana de Entomología, 5 (1): 73-78.

Mederos-López, J., Mendoza-Garcia, M., Viñolas, A. & Caballero-López, B., 2014. Nuevos datos sobre foresis de larvas triungulinas de Meloe mediterraneus y Meloe proscarabeus sobre Diptera e Himenoptera. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, 78: 129-136.

Monserrat, V. J., 2014. Los Diláridos de la Península Ibérica (Insecta: Neuroptera: Dilaridae). Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 187-214

Monserrat, V. J., Badano, D. & Acevedo, F. 2014. Nuevos datos de ascaláfidos para la Península Ibérica, con una nueva especie para la fauna europea (Neuropteridae: Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae). Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 147-167.

Pérez De-Gregorio, J.J. & Requena, E., 2014. Microlepidópteros (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae, Crambidae) Nuevos o interesantes para la fauna catalana e ibèrica, XII. Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 125-145.

Prieto, M., 2014. Els Coleòpters Del Delta Del Llobregat: Aproximació Històrica I Noves Aportacions. Institució Catalana d’Història Natural. At press.

Prieto, M., Agulló, J., Masó, G., Muñoz, J. & Vives, E., 2014. Coleòpters nous o interessants de les Planes de Son i la mata de València (Alt Àneu, Pirineu de Lleida). Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, 78: 99-108.

Recalde, J.I. & Viñolas, A., 2014, Sobre la presencia de Anobium inexspectatum Loshe, 1949 en la peninsula Iberica (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Anobiinae). Orsis 28: 161-163

Trocoli, S. & Echave, P., 2014. Contribución al conocimiento de los Cerambícidos (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) del Parque Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac (Barcelona, España). Heteropterus Rev. Entomol., 14(2): 175-186

Viñolas, A. & Masó, G., 2014. The collection of type specimens of the family Carabidae (Coleoptera) deposited in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Spain. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 12(2014): 13–82.

Viñolas, A. & Maso, G., 2014. Aportació al coneixement de l’alimentació larvària del gènere Stagetus Wollaston, 1861 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Dorcatominae). Orsis 28: 165-168

Viñolas, A. & Masó, G., 2014. Nueva aportación al conocimiento de los Ptinidae (Coleoptera) del Gabón (África Occidental). Arquivos Entomolóxicos, 12: 113-118.

Viñolas, A., Caballero–López, B. & Masó, G., 2014. The collection of type specimens of the families Dytiscidae, Histeridae, Hydraenidae and Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) hosted in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Spain. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 12 (2014): 130–161.

Viñolas, A., Echave, P., Trócoli, S., 2014. Segona cita de Dorcatoma (Dorcatoma) punctulata Mulsant & Rey, 1864 per a la península Ibèrica (Coleoptera; Ptinidae: Dorcatominae). Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural,78: 79-80. 17

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Viñolas, A., Muñoz Batet, J., Masó, G. & Soler, J., 2014. Nuevos registros de coleópteros interesantes del

Parque Natural del Cadí-Moixeró, Cataluña (Península Ibérica) (Coleoptera). Arquivos Entomolóxicos, 12: 91-96.

Viñolas, A., Muñoz-Batet, J., Bentanachs, J. & Masó, G., 2014. Catálogo de los coleópteros del Parque Natural del Cadí-Moixeró, Cataluña, Península Ibérica. Coleopterological Monograph., 5., 155 p.

Viñolas, A., Navarro-Rosinés, P. & Pujade-Villar, J., 2014. Stromatanobium delgadoi n. gen., n. sp. du Pérou (Coleoptera : Ptinidae : Mesocoelopodinae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S), 50 (1): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2014.933014

4) Listed specimens from the chordates collection (four articles) Blanco, A., Puértolas-Pascual, E., Marmi, J., Vila, B., & Sellés, A. G. (2014). Allodaposuchus palustris sp. nov.

from the Upper Cretaceous of Fumanya (South-Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula): Systematics, Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography of the Enigmatic Allodaposuchian Crocodylians. PloS one, 9(12), e115837.

Humberto Gracián Ferrón. 2013. Análisis del patrón de escamación en tiburones actuales como indicador del modo de vida y su aplicación al grupo fósil de los telodontos (Thelodonti, Agnatha). Master’s degree dissertation. Univ. Valencia

Parés-Casanova, P. M., & de la Cruz, S. Larger wild felids exhibit longer dental skeletons. Journal of Zoological and Bioscience Research, 2014, 1, 4:22-26

Sanz, M., Daura, J., & Brugal, J. P. (2014). First occurrence of the extinct deer Haploidoceros in the Iberian Peninsula in the Upper Pleistocene of the Cova del Rinoceront (Castelldefels, Barcelona). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 13(1), 27-40.