MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND CLIMATIC CHANGE

[Knappertsbusch <KNAPPERTSBUS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
Is there anybody who knows about current or past projects, where
recent or past (Holocene or older) environmental changes have been
demonstrated mainly with the help of museum collections ?

We are only interested in investigations, where the museum collections 
already existed at the beginning of such a study.

Examples: mercury pollution in bird feathers, metal concentrations in
extant or fossil mollusk shells, vertebrates, insects, (marine or 
terrestrial) etc.

Thank you.


Michael Knappertsbusch
Natural History Museum Basel
Augustinergasse 2
4001 Basel
Switzerland

Email: Knappertsbus@ubaclu.unibas.ch