Museum of Northern Arizona – Grand Canyon National Park Collection (MNA-GRCA)
The Museum of Northern Arizona Grand Canyon National Park Collection, (MNA-GRCA), is an important collection of both specimens and associated images of arthropods within Grand Canyon National Park on the Colorado Plateau. Terrestrial arthropod specimens were collected along the 250 mile Colorado River within Grand Canyon in collaboration with USGS. Citizen scientists (river boatman) and others collected biodiversity specimens along the river using a black-light at night as an attractant trap. The MNA houses over 300,000 arthropod specimens, collected over a span of 100 years, primarily from the western United States. The MNA is working on projects related to matters of ecology, conservation and biodiversity for National Parks and National Monuments. The goal of the MNA-GRCA collection, on behalf of the National Park Service and the MNA, is to represent material relevant to ecologists, taxonomists, conservationists and the public.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert (galpert@musnaz.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: cb7fc4b1-5e00-41b9-9ef6-8391f8c8f129
DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 46 occurrence
- 40 (87%) georeferenced
- 46 (100%) with images
- 21 (46%) identified to species
- 25 families
- 33 genera
- 20 species
- 20 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
