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Synergistic efforts in specimen digitisation, curation and cataloguing of Brazil's megadiverse flora and funga

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The advancement of digital technologies has brought a rapid global information exchange, impacting all areas of our lives. This also applies to science. Knowledge, conservation and scientific innovation on global biodiversity are being strengthened and disseminated at unprecedented scales.
Ana Flávia Alves Versiane, Fabiana Ranzato Filardi, Thuane Bochorny, Paula Leitman, Mariana Taniguchi, Felipe Alves de Oliveira, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Rafael Oliveira Lima, Domingos Cardoso, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +9 more
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Flowering out of sync: Climate change alters the reproductive phenology of Terminalia paniculata in the Western Ghats of India

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Understanding how climate change impacts the plant life cycle is critical for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our findings suggest that Terminalia paniculata Roth, a common tropical deciduous tree species in the Western Ghats, is now flowering and fruiting at more scattered times than it used to in the past.
Ananthapadmanaban Karthikeyan, Venkatraman Karthik, Sivagnanam Chandrasekaran   +2 more
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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

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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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Harmonising digitised herbarium data to enhance biodiversity knowledge: Major steps towards an updated checklist for the flora of Greenland

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Herbaria worldwide hold centuries of plant data that are key to understanding and protecting biodiversity; however, even with increased digital access, differences in plant naming systems make it difficult to compare records. We developed a semi‐automated workflow that standardises species names and organises herbaria records from multiple institutions
Brandon Samuel Whitley, Jakob Abermann, Inger Greve Alsos, Elisabeth M. Biersma, Viktor Gårdman, Toke Thomas Høye, Laura Jones, Nora Meriem Khelidj, Zhao Li, Gianalberto Losapio, Thomas Pape, Katrine Raundrup, Paula Schmitz, Tiago Silva, Helena Wirta, Tomas Roslin, Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Natasha de Vere   +17 more
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Herbarium digitisation sheds light on historical distribution and drivers of population extinction of a peat bog specialist

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Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem services and human well‐being. Understanding the extent and causes of changes in biodiversity over time can help protect species and their habitats. Herbaria house carefully documented and curated specimens collected by generations of botanists.
Gabriel F. Ulrich, Alessia Guggisberg, Loïc Pellissier, Martin C. Fischer, Alex Widmer   +4 more
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Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria

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Societal Impact Statement As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
Robbie Hart, Viviane Fonseca‐Kruel, Eduardo Dalcin, Estevão da Silva Luís Alexandre, Matthew Pace, Michaela Schmull, Leonardo Beltran‐Rodríguez, Miguel Murguía‐Romero, Diana G. Flores‐Camargo, Cristina Mapes‐Sánchez, Mark Nesbitt, Carolina Romero, Andrew Townesmith, Jan Salick, Alex McAlvay, Kenneth R. Otero‐Walker, Michael J. Balick, Jacob Golan, Bruce Hoffman, Kelsey Leonard, Giulia Mattalia, Guillaume Odonne, Aurora Prehn, Ina Vandebroek   +23 more
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Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

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Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart, Nicholas W. Bard, Michelle van der Bank, T. Jonathan Davies   +3 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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The Pre-Linnaean Herbarium of Paolo Boccone (1633-1704) in Wrocław, Poland: Its History, Description, its Purpose, and its Usefulness for Historians of Science. [PDF]

J Hist Biol
Grenda-Kurmanow M, Drobnik J, Stebel A, Alziar G.   +3 more
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