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The wild coffee resources of Uganda: a precious heritage.
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Caicos Pine Recovery Project Protocols: Standards and methodologies to conserve the TCI National Tree.
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Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) May 2022 Fieldwork Report.
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British Virgin Islands January-February 2020 fieldwork report.
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Kew Tree of Life Explorer - Release notes 2.0.
Release notes for the Tree of Life Explorer data release 2.0Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Phylogenetics, Tree of Life, Plant and Fungal Tree of Life Project, and Evolution
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“Specimens Distributed”: The Circulation of Objects from Kew’s Economic Botany Collection.
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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
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State of the World’s Fungi 2018
The facts and figures contained in the pages of this report and accompanying website (stateoftheworldsfungi.org) will probably come as a total revelation to many people. The first of its kind outlining the state of the world’s fungi, the report highlights just how important fungi are to all life on Earth....Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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ESPECIES DE PLANTAS Y HONGOS útiles y de interés para las comunidades de tres lugares biodiversos de COLOMBIA.
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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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Enhancing rural Caucasian livelihoods through fruit and nut conservation.
Species of plants that are typically harvested (or foraged) from wild populations are often known as neglected and underutilised species (NUS). They are generally overlooked by agricultural researchers, plant breeders and policy makers alike, despite increasing evidence showing their potential to improve the livelihoods of local people and communities. Additionally,...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Nuts, Caucasus, Fruits, Wild foods, Livelihoods, Food security, and Plant conservation
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Madagascar Grass Atlas
Madagascar has a unique heritage in terms of biodiversity. Its separation from Africa set the backdrop for the unique evolution of its flora and fauna. Its isolated island nature gave rise to high endemism and explosive speciation. Of its estimated 12,000 vascular plant species, 83% are unique to Madagascar (Madagascar... -
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The IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology v1.01: Descriptive profiles for Biomes and Ecosystem Functional Groups
The conservation and management of ecosystems has never been more central to the future of biodiversity and human well-being on Earth. The Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 agenda and UN Sustainable Development Goals mandate global action that depends on ecosystem assessment. Rapidly developing information infrastructure to support these global policy...Keith, David A. ; Ferrer, Jose R. ; Nicholson, Emily ; Bishop, Melanie J. ; Polidoro, Beth A. …
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A Strategy for UK Forest Genetic Resources: protecting the UK’s unique diversity of trees and shrubs
This Strategy aims to create a framework for collaboration to better understand, protect and use the genetic diversity in the UK’s trees. It focuses on native species and introduced species where naturalisation has taken place or where important varieties or landraces have been developed in the UK. For ease of...Trivedi, Clare ; Cavers, Stephen ; Atkinson, Nick ; Clark, Jo ; Cottrell, Joan
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Native Seed Ecology, Production & Policy - Advancing knowledge and technology in Europe
This Handbook is a product of the NAtive Seed Science, TEchnology and Conservation (NASSTEC) Initial Training Network which was part of the EU FP7 People-Work Programme. The Programme aims to develop and consolidate the European Research Area (ERA) by strengthening, quantitatively and qualitatively, the human potential of the research and...NAtive Seed Science, TEchnology and Conservation (NASSTEC) Initial Training Network
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Coffee Farming and Climate Change in Ethiopia: Impacts, Forecasts, Resilience and Opportunities - Summary
A two-year SCIP project undertaken by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), and partners. The aim of the project was to provide a climate-resilient coffee economy strategy for Ethiopia, based on a rigorous assessment of the influence of climate change on coffee-producing areas...Moat, Justin ; Williams, Jenny ; Baena, Susana ; Wilkinson, Tim ; Demissew, Sebsebe …
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State of the World’s Plants 2017
A detailed knowledge of plants is fundamental to human life on Earth. Plants underpin all aspects of our everyday life – from the food that we eat, to the clothes that we wear, the materials we use, the air we breathe, the medicines we take and much more. These essential...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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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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Kew Tree of Life Explorer - Release notes 1.0
Release notes for the Tree of Life Explorer data release 1.0Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology 2.0: descriptive profiles for biomes and ecosystem functional groups
Ecosystems are critically important components of Earth’s biological diversity and as the natural capital that sustains human life and well-being. Yet all of the world’s ecosystems show hallmarks of human influence, and many are under acute risks of collapse, with consequences for habitats of species, genetic diversity, ecosystem services, sustainable...Keith, David A. ; Ferrer-Paris, Jose R. ; Nicholson, Emily ; Kingsford, Richard T.
Classification, Freshwater, Red Data/Red List, Biome, Biodiversity, Terrestrial ecosystems, Marine, and Ecosystems
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Report on New Methods for Data Quality Assurance, Verification and Enrichment
Distributed Systems of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) will facilitate the production of tens of millions of natural history specimen collection images along with their labels each year. The labels of these specimens contain valuable information for research studies, but their transcription can be very difficult and time consuming with often hard...Philips, Sarah ; Mathias, Dillen ; Quentin, Groom ; Green, Laura ; Weech, Marie-Hélène …
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Updating data standards in transcription
There are more than 1.2 billion biological specimens in the world’s museums and herbaria. These objects are a particularly important form of biological sample and observation. They underpin biological taxonomy, but the data they contain have many other uses in the biological and environmental sciences. Nevertheless, from their conception they...Groom, Quentin ; Dillen, Mathias ; Hardy, Helen ; Phillips, Sarah ; Willemse, Luc
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SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access - Report on the Ideas Call (October to November 2019)
The SYNTHESYS consortium has been operational since 2004, and has facilitated physical access by individual researchers to European natural history collections through its Transnational Access programme (TA). For the first time, SYNTHESYS+ will be offering virtual access to collections through digitisation, with two calls for the programme, the first in...Hardy, Helen ; Knapp, Sandra ; Allan, E. Louise ; Berger, Frederik ; Dixey, Katherine …
virtual data, digitisation, digitization, digital data, access, collaboration, and natural history collections
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Kew Tree of Life Explorer - Release notes 0.1
Release notes for the Tree of Life Explorer data release 0.1.Kersey, Paul
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Overview of current practices in data analysis for wood identification. A guide for the different timber tracking methods.
Today we have five types of timber tracking tools available. Each has its own strengths and limitations (see the Timber Tracking Tool Infogram), but together they offer a broad range of methods that can assist us in identifying the botanical as well as the geographic origin (provenance) of most kinds...Beeckman, Hans ; Blanc-Jolivet, Céline ; Boeschoten, Laura E ; Cabezas, Jose Antonio ; Chaix, Gilles …
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Exploring the Impact of Political Regimes on Biodiversity
National governments are the main actors responsible for mapping and protecting their biodiversity, but countries differ in their capacity, willingness, and effectiveness to do so. We quantify the global biodiversity managed by different regime types and developed a tool to explore the links between level of democracy and other key...Zizka, Alexander ; Rydén, Oskar ; Edler, Daniel ; Klein, Johannes ; Aronsson, Heléne …
Democracy, Regime type, Autocracy, Specimen collection, and Biodiversity
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Knowledge gaps in the genetics of UK trees and shrubs
This report evaluates the knowledge gaps related to the genetics of UK trees and shrubs including those targeted by the UK National Tree Seed Project. Risk assessments have been conducted by following a decision tree based on two essential considerations: 1. Sampling strategies to capture genetic diversity, 2. Selection of...Gargiulo, Roberta
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Taxus baccata L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Taxus baccata within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta
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Viburnum opulus L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Viburnum opulus within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta
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Rhamnus cathartica L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Rhamnus cathartica within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta
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Salix repens L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Salix repens within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta
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Viburnum lantana L. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Viburnum lantana within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta
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Ulmus glabra Huds. genetic risk assessment
A summary of the current understanding of genetic diversity and life history traits of Ulmus glabra within the UK, including a genetic risk assessment for population sampling and current knowledge gaps.Gargiulo, Roberta