Going, Going, Gone The Diminishing Capacity of Museum Specimen Collections to Address Global Change Research: A Case Study on Urban Reptiles.

The data indicated that large-scale specimen collection and preservation for the 13 lizard species appear to have been initiated in the 1950s, the aggregated growth of specimen collection displayed an increasing trend for more than 30 years and then the upward trend began to level out in the mid-1990s before decreasing drastically by the end of the 20th century ( Figure 2 ).

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