The investigation culminated Saturday in a raid on 13 locations in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
In June and July, about a dozen workers from the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services and the city's Parks and Recreation and Environmental Protection Departments descended on 17 locations across New York.
In 2008, hundreds of federal agents swooped down on 13 locations in California with warrants for objects at institutions like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.
Together, they travelled some 80,000 miles, visited 11 countries, shot on 130 locations, spent £130,000 (then a record) and used enough feet of film to make six feature-length films.
The production filmed on 18 locations in and around Pondicherry, and a crew of 600 worked on the opening sequences of the film.
We inferred dispersal, effective population sizes, genetic diversity and structure based on 14 locations of M. alcon in Belgium and the Netherlands using data from 12 microsatellite loci.
According to news media reports, the police seized blood samples and other substances in raids on 15 locations across Spain last week.
The index was tested on 31 locations along the Gulf of Mexico, with differing sedimentary, ecological and human pressure characteristics and clearly distinguished between locations where restoration is urgent from those where it is not.
The debris fell on 10 locations, including a sewage plant, officials said.
By the end of May, over 1,686 datasets have been uploaded by 263 sources on 244 locations around the world.
