An application of the logit analysis identified characteristics of home owner influencing the selection and use of various sources of information about landscape maintenance. The model estimation was based on survey data from 400 home owners in Georgia, USA. Results indicate that education, age, income and gender influence information source choices.
Collections of specimens in museums of natural history constitute very rich sources of information, containing data that can be analyzed in many ways and answer various types of questions. The aim of this article was to analyze the data content of three big collections of specimens of darkling beetles (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) and to show possible uses of different types of analysis with a specific focus to GIS-based methods. The source material was analyzed with regard to collections, species and collecting persons, using a number of aspects, both as summaries and spatial distribution analyses, such as counts of records, species, specimen localities, UTM squares, collection dates.