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Ethnobotany of the Yali of West Papua.
A general ethnobotanical study of the Yali people was conducted in the Sibi valley in the highlands of West Papua (Jayawijaya, Irian Jaya). The communities were living in a state of relative isolation and relying almost entirely on traditional technology, with substantial use of forest products. Data were collected on...Milliken, William
New Guinea, Ethnobotany, Traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous peoples, Yali (New Guinean people) , and Plant knowledge
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Technical report
UK National Tree Seed Project Seed Collecting Manual
The UK National Tree Seed Project (UKNTSP) welcomes partners and volunteers to collect seed samples of nationally important trees and shrubs from across their UK range. This project will build a national ex situ collection of UK tree seed, maintained and managed by the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB). The collection...Kallow, Simon
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Technical report
Reflora
Reflora is an initiative which aims to increase access to and use of Brazilian plant diversity information deposited in institutions within and outside Brazil. The scoping phase was initiated by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in 2008/9. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew) and the...Nic Lughadha, E. ; Canteiro, C. ; Filardi, F. ; Leitman, P. ; Accardo Filho, M. …
digitisation, Brazil, and herbarium
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Research report
Caicos Pine Recovery Project Protocols: Standards and methodologies to conserve the TCI National Tree.
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Research report
State of the World’s Plants 2016
This is the first document to collate current knowledge on the state of the world’s plants. A large team of researchers has reviewed published literature, scrutinised global databases and synthesised new datasets. The output presented here represents a status report on our knowledge of global vegetation as it stands in...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Research report
Kew Science Publications for the academic year 2016-2017.
In the academic year 2016-2017, Kew scientists, in collaboration with numerous national and international research partners, published 350 papers in international peerreviewed journals and books. Here we bring together the abstracts of some of these papers. Due to space constraints we have included only those which are led by a...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Bibliographies, Botany, and Scientific publications