An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family for human and machine learning. [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2021 Leaves are the most abundant and visible plant organ, both in the modern world and the fossil record. Identifying foliage to the correct plant family based on leaf architecture is a fundamental botanical skill that is also critical for isolated fossil ...
Wilf P +16 more
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Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing. [PDF]
Syst Biol, 2020 Natural history collections are leading successful large-scale projects of specimen digitization (images, metadata, DNA barcodes), thereby transforming taxonomy into a big data science.
Miralles A +21 more
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Underutilized resources for studying the evolution of invasive species during their introduction, establishment, and lag phases. [PDF]
Evol Appl, 2010 The early phases of biological invasions are poorly understood. In particular, during the introduction, establishment, and possible lag phases, it is unclear to what extent evolution must take place for an introduced species to transition from ...
Marsico TD +9 more
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Citizen science data on urban forageable plants: a case study in Brazil. [PDF]
GigaByteThis paper presents two key data sets derived from the Pomar Urbano project. The first data set is a comprehensive catalog of edible fruit-bearing plant species, native or introduced to Brazil.
Soares FM +20 more
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Checklist of Algerian fungi – Part 4: Sordariomycetes (Ascomycota) [PDF]
Microbial Biosystems Journal, 2019 A checklist is presented of ascomycetes belonging to class Sordariomycetes in Algeria. This group of fungi is represented in the country by at least 189 genera and 470 species.
Said Amrani +3 more
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Checklist of Algerian fungi – Part 3: Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) [PDF]
Microbial Biosystems Journal, 2019 Our third contribution to the checklist of Algerian fungi is dedicated to Labouls (Laboulbeniales, Laboulbeniomycetes) an a typical and very diversified group of microscopic fungi that unsure their nutrition and/or dispersal by being insect ectoparasites.
Said Amrani, Ahmed Abdel-Azeem
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Checklist of Algerian fungi – Part 1: Protozoan Fungal Analogues (Myxomycetes) [PDF]
Microbial Biosystems Journal, 2018 Informations on Algerian mycobiota are scattered through a wide array of journals,books, dissertations and the lack of comprehensive catalogs or checklists makes difficult toapprehend it diversity.
Amrani S, Abdel-Azeem AM
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Collections Education: The Extended Specimen and Data Acumen [PDF]
, 2021 Biodiversity scientists must be fluent across disciplines; they must possess the quantitative, computational, and data skills necessary for working with large, complex data sets, and they must have foundational skills and content knowledge from ecology ...
Krimmel, Erica R +5 more
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Checklist of Algerian fungi – Part 2: Chromistan Fungal Analogues (Oomycota, Bigyra, Cercozoa) [PDF]
Microbial Biosystems Journal, 2018 This publication provides an updated checklist of Chromistan Fungal Analogues (CFA) in Algeria. This is a compilation of information on substrate and locality from where CFA fungi have been recorded. or original descriptions available.
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On Genus Amorphophallus Blume ex Decne (Araceae) in Cuba [PDF]
, 2021 Context: The presence in several Cuban cities of Amorphophallus Blume ex Decne (Araceae), which has been poorly and unelaborately published in the scientific literature, encouraged researchers to conduct a systematic, phytogeographic, and ethnobotanical ...
González-Sivilla, Roeris +1 more
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