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Fungal Biodeterioration Risk in Monastic Libraries without Climate Control [PDF]
MicroorganismsFungi have always posed an unquestionable threat to heritage collections worldwide. Now, in a future of climate change, biological risk factors may have to be considered even more than before.
Katharina Derksen +7 more
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Mapping Materials and Dyes on Historic Tapestries Using Hyperspectral Imaging
Heritage, 2023 Hyperspectral imaging has emerged as a promising analytical method of artwork due to its potential in combining non-invasive analytical capabilities and imaging allowing the survey of the entire (or of a large area of the) surface of an artwork, which is
Constantina Vlachou-Mogire +3 more
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Quantifying Housekeeping Challenge and Conservation Need
Heritage, 2023 This simple model, developed by conservators, assists in the challenge of making preventive conservation, housekeeping, and care of historic interiors and collections, physically and economically sustainable, in historic houses welcoming increasing ...
Helen Lloyd
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A poorly known high-latitude parasitoid wasp community: unexpected diversity and dramatic changes through time. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Climate change will have profound and unanticipated effects on species distributions. The pace and nature of this change is largely unstudied, especially for the most diverse elements of terrestrial communities--the arthropods--here we have only limited ...
Jose Fernandez-Triana +6 more
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After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions
Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 The significant extinctions in Earth history have largely been unpredictable in terms of what species perish and what traits make species susceptible.
Felisa A. Smith +5 more
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Heritage Science Contribution to the Understanding of Meaningful Khipu Colours
Heritage, 2023 This work is the first scientific study of khipu dyes and inorganic mordants and auxiliaries, paving the way for a new approach to understanding khipus’ meaningful materiality, technology, and colours.
Lucrezia Milillo +5 more
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Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2022 Background and aim: Chinese Materia Medica (CMM) is subject to changes over time. Investigating changes in botanical ingredients, applications, plant parts used as well as name changes over time, contribute to the understanding of the history and ...
Yusheng Jia, Mei Wang, Tinde van Andel
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Pollen metabarcoding of museum specimens and recently collected bumblebees (Bombus) indicates foraging shifts [PDF]
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2023 Landscape changes, over time, lead to changes of floral resources available to pollinators, which in turn may result in the disappearance of ecologically specialized species.
Andreas Kolter +3 more
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Heritage Science, 2017 Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) can be a useful diagnostic tool in the assessment of quality in textile, agricultural and various other industries.
Nanette Kissi +4 more
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Developing a Master Preservation Plan for Collections at the Museum of History and Art [PDF]
, 2014 The museum's staff requests a planning grant to engage representative city officials and a team of three consultants--a conservator, environmental management specialist, and historic preservation architect--to develop a Master Preservation Plan for ...
Theresa E. Hanley, Theresa E. Hanley
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