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The importance of integrating herbarium records into conservation plans: a case study on Honduran ferns and lycophytes

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Herbarium collections are powerful, yet underutilized, tools for global biodiversity conservation and protected area management. By integrating digitized herbarium records with existing biodiversity data, previously unknown plant species were uncovered, exposing critical gaps in conservation knowledge.
Sven P. Batke, Thom Dallimore, Johan Reyes‐Chávez, David G. Hill, Wendy Atkinson, Eric van den Berghe, Geraldine Reid   +6 more
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Development of the Northern Sea Route as a space for entrepreneurship and trade

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Since ancient times, travelers, discoverers, entrepreneurs and traders have sought to find the most rational route from one area of the globe to another.
A. M. Novozhilov
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

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Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom, Sofie Meeus, Sara Bárrios, Catherine Childs, Colin Clubbe, Ernestine Corbett, Sarita Francis, Alan Gray, Luke Harding, Annick Jackman, Rebecca Machin, Andrew McGovern, Mike Pienkowski, Delmaude Ryan, Chris Sealys, Catherine Wensink, Jodey Peyton   +16 more
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Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

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Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

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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, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
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‘An Important Exercise of Care and Attention’: How the International Geological Expedition Was Established in Mongolia

Oriental Studies
Introduction. In the early 1970s, Mongolia’s executives ― in accordance with the Comprehensive Program of Socialist Economic Integration ― were seeking to gain economic ground and bring the MPR to the level of its partners.
Narma A. Kamandzhaev
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Wandering Through the Desert with Multiple Sclerosis: How Outdoor Life Recalibrates Body Awareness and Self-Identity [PDF]

Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2019
People with multiple sclerosis benefit from exercise, however, they commonly lead a more sedentary lifestyle. Therefore, they may lack the positive effects of activity on body awareness and selfidentity. This study explores changes in body awareness and
Joeri Calsius, Minne Van Den Noortgate, Gert Roncada, Paul Van Asch, Marie D’hooghe   +4 more
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Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar: The recent significant discovery of a relic related to the Franklin Expedition [PDF]

, 2023
Russell S. Taichman
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Correction to: Typification and rediscovery of Phialacanthus griffithii Benth. & Hook.f. (Acanthaceae) in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
U.L. Tiwari
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