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2024
Journal article
Permits, contracts and their terms for biodiversity specimens.
We present two different typologies of legal/contractual information in the context of natural history objects: the Biodiversity Permit/Contract Typology categorises permits and contracts, and the Typology of Legal/Contractual Terms for Biodiversity Specimens categorises the terms within permits and contracts. The Typologies have been developed under the EU-funded SYNTHESYS+ project with... -
2023
Journal article
Validation of three Indo-Chinese Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae).
Re-examination of nomenclature of three Indo-Chinese species, Clerodendrum adenocalyx, C. nhatrangense and C. palmatolobatum reveals that their names are invalidly published according to Article 39.1. in the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants (ICN): all these species published in 1935 were described without a Latin diagnosis. Our...Satthaphorn, Jiratthi ; Paton, Alan ; Leeratiwong, Charan
Vietnam, Nomenclature, Cambodia, Indochina, Laos, Clerodendrun, New species, and Thailand
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2023
Book chapter
Post-Visit.
Puglisi, Carmen ; Paton, Alan
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2023
Book chapter
During the visit.
Puglisi, Carmen ; Paton, Alan
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2023
Book chapter
Before the visit.
Puglisi, Carmen ; Paton, Alan
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2023
Book chapter
Visitors: Introduction.
Puglisi, Carmen ; Paton, Alan
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2023
Book chapter
Record Keeping.
Phelan, Lauren ; Paton, Alan
Herbarium specimens, Herbarium management, Record keeping, and Herbaria
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2023
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2023
Journal article
A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea.
The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea (CVPRG) is a specimen-based, expert-validated knowledge product, which provides a concise synthesis and overview of current knowledge on 3901 vascular plant species documented from Guinea (Conakry), West Africa, including their accepted names and synonyms, as well as their distribution... -
2023
Journal article
Policies Handbook on Using Molecular Collections.
The access to molecular collections worldwide greatly improves the quality of scientific research by making a growing number of data available for investigation. The efforts on digitisation also aim at facilitating the exchange of material between institutions and researchers that must follow regulations in place and respect best practice. The... -
2018
Journal article
Phylogenetic study of Plectranthus, Coleus and allies (Lamiaceae): taxonomy, distribution and medicinal use.
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2022
Journal article
Sixty-seven species newly recorded for the flora of Angola: recent findings from vegetation surveys and herbarium collections.
Angola is a tropical country with many biogeographical units and, therefore, has a high floristic diversity. Although an increasing number of floristic studies has been carried out in Angola in recent years, the country is still considered to be underinvestigated as many species being collected were previously unknown there. Several... -
2019
Journal article
Rosemary, sage and Salvia.
Paton, Alan
Salvia rosmarinus, Taxonomy, Salvia, Sage, Rosemary, and Nomenclature
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2019
Abstract
Examining Herbarium Specimen Citation: Developing a literature-based institutional impact measure.
Herbarium specimens are critical components of the research process - providing "what, where, when" evidence for species distributions and through type designation, providing the basis for un-ambiguous, standardised nomenclature facilitating the interpretation of scientific names. Specimen references are embedded within research article texts, by convention usually presented in a relatively...Nicolson, Nicky ; Paton, Alan ; Phillips, Sarah ; Tucker, Allan
Text classification, Specimen citation, Text mining, and Citation metrics
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2019
Abstract
Integrating Collector and Author Roles Across Specimen and Publication Datasets.
This work builds on the outputs of a collector data-mining exercise applied to GBIF mobilised herbarium specimen metadata, which uses unsupervised learning (clustering) to identify collectors from minimal metadata associated with field collected specimens (the DarwinCore terms , and ). Here, we outline methods to integrate these data-mined collector entities...Nicolson, Nicky ; Paton, Alan ; Phillips, Sarah ; Tucker, Allan
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2018
Conference paper (published)
Specimens as Research Objects: Reconciliation Across Distributed Repositories to Enable Metadata Propagation
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2021
Journal article
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity.
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is a comprehensive list of scientifically described plant species, compiled over four decades, from peer-reviewed literature, authoritative scientific databases, herbaria and observations, then reviewed by experts. It is a vital tool to facilitate plant diversity research, conservation and effective management, including sustainable use...Govaerts, Rafaël ; Nic Lughadha, Eimear ; Black, Nicholas ; Turner, Robert ; Paton, Alan
Biodiversity, Data publication and archiving, Plant ecology, and Classification and taxonomy
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2021
Journal article
Uses and benefits of digital sequence information from plant genetic resources: Lessons learnt from botanical collections.
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2020
Journal article
World Flora Online: Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants
It is time to synthesize the knowledge that has been generated through more than 260 years of botanical exploration, taxonomic and, more recently, phylogenetic research throughout the world. The adoption of an updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) in 2011 provided the essential impetus for the development of the World... -
2020
Journal article
Plant and fungal collections: Current status, future perspectives.
Societal Impact Statement Plant and fungal specimens provide the auditable evidence that a particular organism occurred at a particular place, and at a particular point in time, verifying past occurrence and distribution. They also document the aspects of human exploration and culture. Collectively specimens form a global asset with significant... -
2019
Journal article
Molecular and morphological evidence for a new species of Siphocranion (Lamiaceae) from the Sino-Vietnamese border
Siphocranion is an oligotypic genus of Lamiaceae, with two species mainly distributed in subtropical China and one of them found also in northeastern India, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Based on field investigation, morphological comparison, and molecular phylogenetic analyses, a new species of Siphocranion from the Sino-Vietnamese border is described as S....Chen, Ya-Ping ; Zhu, Xin-Xin ; Zhao, Fei ; Feng, Hui-Zhe ; Paton, Alan …
Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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2019
Journal article
Nomenclatural changes in Coleus and Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): a tale of more than two genera
A synopsis of the genera Coleus Lour, Equilabium A.J.Paton, Mwany. & Culham and Plectranthus L’Hér. (Lamiaceae, Tribe Ocimeae, Subtribe Plecranthinae) is presented. Generic delimitation follows a recently published molecular phylogeny which identified Coleus as the sister of the remaining genera of Subtribe Plectranthinae; Plectranthus as sister to Tetradenia Benth. and...Paton, Alan ; Mwanyambo, Montfort ; Govaerts, Rafaël ; Smitha, Kokkaraniyil ; Suddee, Somran …
