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Conference paper (published)
Distribution, ecology, and threat to selected Madagascan orchids.
Cribb, Phillip ; Roberts, David ; Hermans, Johan
Orchids, Geographical distribution, Madagascar, Threatened plants, Ecology, and Orchidaceae
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The root of the flowering plants, re-re-revisited.
Marques, Isabel ; Les, Donald H. ; Macfarlane, Terry D. ; Conran, John G. ; Rudall, Paula J. …
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Conference paper (published)
The BioCode: from vision to reality.
Hawksworth, David L. ; Mcneill, John ; Greuter, Werner
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Conference paper (published)
Plant name resources: building bridges with users.
Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plant Name Index, World Checklist of... -
Poster (unpublished)
A New Online Resource for CITES Medicinal Plant Listings – Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Services (graphic summary of Information Document CoP17 Inf. 26).
Irving, Jason T. W. ; Dauncey, Elizabeth A. ; Allkin, Bob
Nomenclature, Databases, Medicinal plants, and Medicinal Plant Names Services
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Conference paper (published)
Collecting genetic variation on a small island.
Kallow, Simon ; Trivedi, Clare
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Conference paper (published)
Identifying Novel Features from Specimen Data for the Prediction of Valuable Collection Trips.
Primary biodiversity data provide “what, where, and when” data points: the assertion that a species occurred at a particular point in space and time. These are most valuable when associated with specimens stored in natural history museums and herbaria, which evidence the assertions with reference to a physical specimen. The...Nicolson, Nicky ; Tucker, Allan
Collecting trip, Identification, Specimen data, Data-mining, Collectors, and Metadata
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Conference paper (published)
Re-evaluating Student Treatments of Barkcloth Artefacts from the Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lennard, Frances ; Tamura, Misa ; Nesbitt, Mark
Economic botany, Treatment re-evaluation, Storage, Documentation, Barkcloth, Tapa, and Textile conservation education
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Conference paper (published)
The forage plant traits and nutrition database.
Stockdale, E. ; Bachinger, J. ; Benolt, M. ; Bergkvist, G. ; Carlton, R …
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Engaging Children with Herbarium Specimens at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew’s Science Festival.
The Kew and Wakehurst Science Festivals consists of five days of activities over two weekends. Workshops and tours allow visitors to engage with the scientists and their research. We designed an interactive experience, so children could understand what a herbarium sheet is and the process of making one. The Herbarium...Bavington, Melissa
Engagement, Botanical specimens, Science communication, Herbarium, Herbarium sheet, and Science Festival
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Conference paper (published)
Specimens as Research Objects: Reconciliation Across Distributed Repositories to Enable Metadata Propagation
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Progress report towards meeting 2020 GSPC targets 8 & 9 in Europe - implementation and subsequent recommendations.
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Presentation
Evolution and functional ecology of the embryo to seed size ratio.
Continuous variation exists in the ratio of embryo to nutritive tissues of Angiosperms. Embryo to seed size ratio ranges from seeds dispersed with an embryo consisting of a clump of cells embedded in copious endosperm, e.g. several Ranunculaceae, to seeds containing only an embryo and no nutritive tissue, e.g. many...Vandelook, Filip ; Dickie, John B. ; Carta, Angelino
Evolution, Functional ecology, and Embryo to seed size ratio
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Progress in Authority Management of People Names for Collections.
The concept of building a network of relationships between entities, a knowledge graph, is one of the most effective methods to understand the relations between data. By organizing data, we facilitate the discovery of complex patterns not otherwise evident in the raw data. Each datum at the nodes of a...Groom, Quentin ; Besombes, Chloé ; Brown, Josh ; Chagnoux, Simon ; Georgiev, Teodor …
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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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Conference paper (published)
Cryobiotechnology for the long-term preservation of oak (Quercus sp.) genetic resources.
Oaks (genus Quercus) are dominant and iconic trees in most European, American, Asian and North African forests, from cool temperate to tropical environments. There are at least 600 species of Quercus globally with high ecological and economical importance. However, 45% of the species evaluated by IUCN are considered threatened, being...Ballesteros, D. ; Nebot, A. ; Pritchard, H.
Quercus, Cryopreservation, Axes, Genetic resources, Pollen, Seeds, In vitro culture, and Embryos
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Conference paper (published)
Dracula – at home and in captivity.
Hermans, Johan
Dracula, Orchidaceae, Orchids, and Cultivation
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Challenges of Integrating and Curating Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Data in the World Checklist of Vascular Plants.
The World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP) is the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew’s global names and taxonomy output. The underlying data sources, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families – in Review (WCSP –...Turner, Robert ; Govaerts, Rafaël
Nomenclature, Names, IPNI, World Checklist of Vascular Plants, and Taxonomy
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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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Conference paper (published)
Wild bananas detect forest gaps.
Banana crop wild relatives (CWR) grow in tropical to sub-tropical Asia and Pacific forest. They take advantage of forest disturbances to form patches in the forest or on the edges of cleared land. We investigate the mechanism by which seeds from banana CWRs are able to detect gaps and germinate...Kallow, Simon ; Davies, Rachael ; Janssens, Steven B. ; Vandelook, Filip ; Panis, Bart …
Pacific, Forest gaps, Bananas, Crop wild relatives, Seed germination, Musa, and Asia
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Addressing Uncertainties in Machine Learning Predictions of Conservation Status.
Extinction risk assessments are increasingly important to many stakeholders (Bennun et al. 2017) but there remain large gaps in our knowledge about the status of many species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2019, hereafter Red List) is the most comprehensive assessment of extinction risk. However, it includes...Walker, Barnaby ; Leão, Tarciso ; Bachman, Steven ; Lucas, Eve ; Nic Lughadha, Eimear
Conservation assessment, Machine learning, Natural history collections, Uncertainty, and IUCN Red List
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Presentation
Narrowing Down the Early Domestication History of the Watermelon with Ancient Seeds and DNA.
Renner, Susanne S. ; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A. ; Silber, Martina V. ; Nesbitt, Martin ; Preick, Michaela …
Ancient Egypt, Citrullus lanatus, Genomics, Plant domestication, and Archaeological remains
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Presentation
Water Storage in Succulent Plants.
Grace, Olwen M.
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Genomics for Future Trees.
Biggs, Richard
Trees, Broad-leaved trees, and Genomics
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Poster (unpublished)
Environmental Shifts of Crops: A Global Niche Comparison of Domesticated Plants and Their Wild Relatives.
Phillips, C. ; Rieseberg, L. ; Warschefsky, E. ; Mehrabi, Z. ; Ondo, I. …
Environmental shifts, Domesticated plants, Crop wild relatives, Crop plants, and Geographical distribution
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Poster (unpublished)
Evaluating the Sustainability of Forest Use: A Case Study from Dashtijum Nature Reserve, Tajikistan.
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Poster (unpublished)
Wild Edible Plants Research to Support Traditional Diet Preservation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Conference paper (published)
Cultivating novel and diverse forage plant communities could enhance livestock farming.
Lee, M. A.
Digestibility, Ecosystem services, Protein, Nutrition, Forage, Diversity, and Plant communities
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A Collective Effort to Update the Legume Checklist.
Taxonomic names are critical to the communication of biodiversity—they link data together whether it be distribution data, traits or phylogeny. Large taxonomic groups, such as many plant families, are globally distributed as is the taxonomic expertise of the family. A growing knowledge base requires collaboration to develop an up-to-date checklist...Le Roux, Marianne ; Döring, Markus ; Bruneau, Anne ; Miller, Joe ; Govaerts, Rafaël …
Checklists, Legumes, Leguminosae, and Taxonomy
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Conference paper (published)
Engineering SpyTag Bacteriophage K1F for Directional Immobilisation.
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Conference paper (published)
Evolutionary diversification of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae): a hyperdiverse neotropical orchid lineage.
Bogarin, Diego ; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A. ; Pupulin, Franco ; Smets, Erik ; Gravendeel, Barbara
Pollination, Orchidaceae, Evolutionary diversification, Lepanthes, and Taxonomy
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Conference paper (published)
Demonstration of the New IPNI (International Plant Names Index) Registration System.
Registration systems have long been in place for names of plant cultivars, fungi, prokaryotes and animals, and more recently for algae (Müller et al. 2022). Yet, despite previous attempts, nothing has become established for vascular plants. The newly released International Plant Names Index (IPNI) registration system aims to address this....Wrankmore, Emma ; Krieger, Jonathan ; Govaerts, Rafaël ; Hartley, Helen
Vascular plant names, Data standards, Nomenclature, and International Plant Name Index
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New Developments and Future Vision of the Nomenclatural Database IPNI and the Taxonomic Database WCVP.
IPNI (International Plant Names Index) has been providing nomenclatural data in one form or another for the past 138 years. Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the data and making it accessible via a new website. We will be showcasing the new features that have...Govaerts, Rafaël ; Hartley, Helen ; Krieger, Jonathan ; Wrankmore, Emma
IPNI, Taxonomy, International Plant Names Index, WCVP, Nomenclature, Plant names, and World Checklist of Vascular Plants
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Poster (unpublished)
Identifying Tropical Important Plant Areas in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Connecting the Dots: Aligning human capacity through networks toward a globally interoperable Digital Extended Specimen (DES) infrastructure.
Thanks to substantial support for biodiversity data mobilization in recent decades, billions of occurrence records are openly available, documenting life on Earth and enabling timely research, awareness raising, and policy-making. Initiatives across local to global scales have been separately funded to serve different, yet often overlapping audiences of data users,...Ellwood, Elizabeth R. ; Addink, Wouter ; Bates, John ; Bentley, Andrew ; Buschbom, Jutta …
Collaboration, Biodiversity, Digital Extended Specimen (DES), International partners, and Roadmap
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Safeguarding Access to 500 Years of Biodiversity Data: Sustainability planning for the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA), BHL is a global consortium of research institutions working together to build and maintain a critical piece of biodiversity data infrastructure. BHL provides free access... -