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Specimen Preparation
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Assistant Curator Burton Lim describes the process of preparing specimens collected in the field for research and study.
Biodiversity
English
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How does the ROM get endangered species in their galleries?
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Museums are filled with species that may be endangered or extinct. Assistant Curator, Mary Burridge, reveals how the ROM builds its extensive collection without putting any specimens at risk.
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Is coral a plant or an animal?
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Coral is a mysterious species that is difficult to identify - is it a plant or an animal? Assistant Curator, Mary Burridge, reveals the true identity of these extraordinary creatures.
See a live coral reef inside the Life in Crisis: Schad Gallery of Biodiversity.
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Find the Baby Bison Contest
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Contest now closed.
A baby bison is missing from the herd and we need your help to find the calf! Brought to you by the Bison Collaborative: Earth Rangers, Parks Canada, Royal Ontario Museum and Toronto Zoo.
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Canada's Oceans & YOU: Rising Sea
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In very short order, two crews, one from the ROM and one from our contractor MCM, worked together to create a suspended ocean canopy for a special installation in the Green Living Show, complete with sharks and other fishes, whales, and birds, including a Bald Eagle.
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Burton & Isabelle Pipistrelle: Out of the Bat Cave
Ajouté le 29 août 2012 à 16 h 31
A peek behind-the-scenes at the making of the ROM's first children's book, Burton and Isabelle Pipistrelle: Out of the Bat Cave!
Available now at the ROM Museum Store, in bookstores, and online.
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Tél. : 416.586.5894
Burton Lim
Assistant Curator of Mammalogy
Tél. : 416.586.5771
B.Sc., Zoology, University of Toronto
M.Sc., Biology, York University
Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
Burton Lim is Assistant Curator of Mammalogy in the Department of Natural History at the ROM.
Born, raised and educated in Toronto, Burton has been employed at the ROM since completing his undergraduate degree in 1984 and has pursued graduate studies. He has travelled to 18 countries (and counting) conducting fieldwork on mammals. His research interests focus on the evolution of bats and the biodiversity of mammals.
His dissertation examines the molecular phylogenetics of New World sheath-tailed bats (Family Emballonuridae), their origin, divergence times, biogeography in Central and South America, and the evolution of morphological and behavioural characters. Burton has recently completed a 5-year project doing a biotic survey of small mammals as part of a larger project on terrestrial vertebrates and their parasites in China.
He uses information gathered from faunal surveys in the Guiana Shield (primarily Guyana and Suriname) to investigate species diversity and relative abundance of small mammals (bats, rats, opossums). The establishment of baseline data on distribution and community ecology enables the monitoring of changes in the environment to assess aspects of conservation and sustainable development. Burton is also participating in the international Barcode of Life project to create a genetic reference system for species identification and discovery of mammals.
Other Links
- Lim, B.K. 2009. ROM's Blog.
- Lim, B.K. 2007. Taxa - Mammals. Biotic Surveys and Inventories of Southern China. University of Utah.
- Lim, B.K., M.D. Engstrom, and J. Ochoa G. 2003. Preliminary checklist of the mammals of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana; Suriname; French Guiana). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
- Engstrom, M.D. and B.K. Lim. 2000. Checklist of the mammals of Guyana. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
- Engstrom, M.D., B.K. Lim, and F.A. Reid. 1999. Common mammals of Iwokrama. Iwokrama International Centre for Rain forest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana.
