This dataset contains PM2.5 and meteorology measurements taken from Temuco and Padre Las Casas, Chile from June 2017 to July 2018. This data was collected for the NERC funded project Impact of Wood Burning Air Pollution on Preeclampsia and other Pregnancy Outcomes in Temuco which aimed to determine whether exposure to air pollutants (specifically PM2.5 and wood burning tracer) have an impact on preeclampsia and other pregnancy outcomes (low birth weight, birth weight, small of gestational age, preterm birth). The purpose of this data is to predict the spatio-temporal PM2.5 concentrations and wood tracers using land use regression models. The campaign included sampling at 40 fixed sites in parallel with sampling at a central site located at a government monitoring station to control for background levels. Sites tried to maximize the spatial distribution of likely predictors such as number of residential dwellings, number of wood-stoves, PM2.5 concentrations and traffic impact. Two-weeks PM2.5 samples were collected at each site and repeated in 4 sessions covering a whole year. Samples were analyzed for mass and the wood-burning tracers levoglucosan and soluble potassium.

[This dataset is embargoed until March 16, 2026]. This data resource contains counts of bumblebee abundance between December 2019 and March 2020 along a latitudinal gradient within Argentina and Chile. Sampling of both invasive (Bombus terrestris and B. ruderatus) and native (B. dahlbomii) bumblebee species was undertaken using standardised transect walks along a latitudinal gradient from -54.871 to -29.906 from 145 individual locations. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1797a623-e582-4c0c-bc67-cd9de04e0df0

This database contains information on the herbarium specimens held in the herbarium of the British Antarctic Survey (international code AAS) as well as information about specimens collected in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic and held in other world herbaria. There are over 70 000 records, predominantly of mosses and lichens, but also of vascular plants, ferns, fungi and algae collected in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions as well as some from surrounding continents, particularly South America. The collection from South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands started in 1775 and from Antarctica in 1834. Documents relating to the Herbarium are kept in the BAS Archives (LS2/4). The records can be searched and downloaded on: http://apex.nerc-bas.ac.uk/f?p=148:1. There is also a facility to see a distribution map of specimens retrieved by querying the database.