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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Conference paper (unpublished)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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Conference paper (published)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Seed Information Database (SID): A compilation of taxon-based biological seed characteristics or traits
The Seed Information Database (SID) is one of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew's strategic databases in the public domain (http://data.kew.org/sid). SID is a compilation of taxon-based information on a range of biological seed characteristics or traits for about 52,564 seed plant taxa. Assembling and mobilizing such data involved challenges...Liu, Udayangani ; Cossu, Tiziana Antonella ; Dickie, John
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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