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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

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Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

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Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

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Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa   +3 more
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Exoticism in the Enlightenment.

Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1991
(1991). Exoticism in the enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 867-869.
J. S. Cummins   +2 more
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Exoticism

2012
Abstract Chapter 36 considers the difficulty in defining exoticism, in determining its contentious relationship to the concept of orientalist representation and to the analysis of cross-cultural influence, and the attempts that have been made to establish a periodization of its historical development.
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Extreme Exoticism

2019
Abstract Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination offers a detailed and wide-ranging documentation and investigation of the role of music in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life.
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