A recent paper highlights a critical research gap, and reveals the potential for finding new data in old places.
Tag - herbarium specimens
Rachael Olliff-Yang
Training and high quality images needed for best online annotation of digital specimens
Volunteers produced the most accurate annotations in-person, but both in-person and online volunteers gave good results.
Erin Zimmerman
The orchid that’s running out of time
Ophrys sphegodes, the early spider-orchid, is a plant with a very short pollination window. The changing climate is closing that window more and more often as the planet warms.
Alun Salt
Phylogeny and evolution of Cyperus esculentus
Results suggest that tiger nut probably originated in the late Cenozoic in Africa and reached the Americas repeatedly, independently of Columbian exchanges.
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