Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Tom Humphrey, Herbaria@home: crowd-sourcing the documentation of natural science collections
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Herbaria@home, herbarium records, snapshot of the world before agriculture, including areas now completely obliterated. Found plant, Ghost Orchid, thought to be extinct.
Plant don’t move, but they do invade, e.g. Oxford Ragwort. Scilian plant introduced in 1700 to an Oxford botanical garden, escaped, and now has spread out across UK. Roesbay willowherb, but railways have distributed seeds and now it’s everywhere. Plants also go by road, e.g. Danish scurvy grass, should be coastal, but now has colonised verges.
Plant populations are in flux. Modern survey data alone isn’t enough, so need the historic data to give context.
Web based project to
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