Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria.
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Plants_People_Planet_-_2025_-_Hart_-_Repositories_of_biocultural_diversity__Toward_best_practices_for_empowering__1_.pdf
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Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Hart, Robbie
Fonseca‐Kruel, Viviane
Dalcin, Eduardo
Estevão da Silva, Luís Alexandre
Pace, Matthew
Schmull, Michaela
Beltran‐Rodríguez, Leonardo
Murguía‐Romero, Miguel
Flores‐Camargo, Diana G.
Mapes‐Sánchez, Cristina
Nesbitt, Mark
Romero, Carolina
Townesmith, Andrew
Salick, Jan
McAlvay, Alex
Otero‐Walker, Kenneth R.
Balick, Michael J.
Golan, Jacob
Hoffman, Bruce
Leonard, Kelsey
Mattalia, Giulia
Odonne, Guillaume
Prehn, Aurora
Vandebroek, Ina
Date published
June 27, 2025
Abstract
As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). However, the absence of shared curatorial standards limits accessibility and use by IPLCs and others. We estimated and characterized ethnobotanical data associated with herbarium specimens and provide here key considerations for future work. We identified a proportionally small, yet collectively significant, number of ethnobotanical specimens, and call for coordinating best practices among global herbaria to locate, acknowledge, and responsibly share this information, together with source communities.
Project(s)
Priority 5: Enhanced Partnerships
Funder
| Funder name | Awards |
National Endowment for the Humanities, United States | NEH award ZPA-283531-22 |
National Science Fund, United States | NSF award 2140478 |
Journal title
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET
Article number
ppp3.70052
Publisher
Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of New Phytologist Foundation.
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
2572-2611
eISSN
2572-2611
Date accepted
May 22, 2030
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IF = 3.6 (2024).