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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stambul Comedy Exploration in Early 20th-Century Semarang: Meaningful Teaching about Colonialism

open access: yesHarmonia: Journal of Arts Research and Education
This study aims to analyze the results of exploring stambul comedy as part of Indies art in early 20th-century Semarang as an effort to implement meaningful learning about colonialism for students.
Syaiful Amin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial Agents:

open access: yes, 2009
This article traces relationships between German-speaking missionaries and politics in the English-speaking world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It particularly examines the relationship between Moravian missionaries and the colonial government in Victoria, Australia demonstrating how politics impinged upon missionary work.
openaire   +1 more source

Globalization, Natural Resources and Foreign Investment: A View from the Resource-Rich Tropics [PDF]

open access: yes
This article uses data drawn from Southeast Asia and West Africa to help explain the geographical distribution of foreign investment. Why during late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century globalization did the attributes of abundant natural resources ...
Gregg Huff
core  

Novel applications of the tomato microbiome: Roles and considerations for agriculture, human health, and society

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plants, like humans, have a microbiome that helps them grow, defend themselves against pathogens, acquire nutrients, and protect themselves against environmental stresses. The microbiome of tomatoes, a staple crop grown worldwide, could be utilized not only to reduce fertilizer and pesticide applications, but also to clean up harmful pollutants ...
Sean Lindert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already ...
Byrd, Jodi A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Identity Play: Middle School Youths' Provisional Self‐Making in Horizon‐Expanding STEM Spaces

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces identity play as an analytic construct for science education to explore improvisational dimensions of middle school students' STEM identity development in multiple out‐of‐school learning experiences focused on environmental problem‐solving.
Heidi B. Carlone, Alison K. Mercier
wiley   +1 more source

“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

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