Book ID: CBB606821854

Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants (2020)

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Barbara M. Thiers (Author)


Timber Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

Since the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor.Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into this unique field of plant biology, exploring how herbaria emerged and have changed over time, who promoted and contributed to them, and why they remain such an important source of data for their new role: understanding how the world’s flora is changing. Barbara Thiers, director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, also explains how recent innovations that allow us to see things at both the molecular level and on a global scale can be applied to herbaria specimens, helping us address some of the most critical problems facing the world today.

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Review Gina Douglas (2022) Review of "Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants". Archives of Natural History (pp. 227-227). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ryholt, Kim
Asselin, Alain
Nanda, Vivek
Sylva Dobalová
Adéla Pokorná
Megan Rosenbloom
Concepts
Libraries and archives
Science, general histories
Biological specimens
Plants
Herbarium; herbaria
Botany
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century
17th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Levant and Near East
England
Sicily
Institutions
Oxford Botanic Garden
University of Oxford (UK)
Natural History Museum (London, England)
British Library
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
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