A team of botanists and biologists affiliated with several institutions in Italy has found it is possible to trace changes to plant life in some parts of the world by studying herbaria created by plant enthusiasts. In their ...
A study led by a Florida State University researcher that was published in Nature Human Behaviour shows how colonization has contributed to the distribution of plants specimens stored in herbaria collections around the world.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2023
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Some of the world's most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria—collections of pressed, dried plant specimens—are a less-known but important ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2023
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A new review published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences combines disparate studies to synthesize the past, current, and potential future uses of plant specimens as functional trait data sources.
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2022
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Last month, priceless botanical specimens were destroyed after an apparent miscommunication between scientists and Australian customs officials.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2017
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Imagine the scientific discoveries that would result from a searchable online database containing millions of plant, algae, and fungi specimen records. Thanks to a new set of workflow modules to digitize specimen collections ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2015
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For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the plants' morphology—traits ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2013
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(Phys.org)—The relocation of the Herbarium's one million pressed and dried plants to their new home in the University's state-of-the-art Sainsbury Laboratory is turning up hundreds of unique specimens never seen since their ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2012
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Another attractive theory falls foul of the facts. A census of trees in rainforests on three continents has confirmed that competition plays a central role in structuring communities. This contradicts the so-called neutral ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2012
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Sites of origin and regions of domestication of many of our most important cultivated plants are still unknown. The botanical genus Cucumis, to which both the cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and the honeydew melon (C. melo) belong, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2010
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