A5023054657- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Research Data Management Practices
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Quality and Management Systems
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
2015-2025
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2019-2023
Natural History Museum
2019-2023
Natural History Museum Aarhus
2023
Natural History Museum of Denmark
2023
University of Florence
2023
Meise Botanic Garden
2019-2023
Cardiff University
2019-2021
Freie Universität Berlin
2019
University of Tartu
2019
Abstract The classification of the legume family proposed here addresses long‐known non‐monophyly traditionally recognised subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognising six robustly supported monophyletic subfamilies. This new uses as its framework most comprehensive phylogenetic analyses legumes to date, based on plastid matK gene sequences, and including near‐complete sampling genera (698 currently 765 genera) ca. 20% (3696) known species. region has been widely sequenced across legumes, in...
Caesalpinioideae is the second largest subfamily of legumes (Leguminosae) with ca. 4680 species and 163 genera. It an ecologically economically important group formed mostly woody perennials that range from large canopy emergent trees to functionally herbaceous geoxyles, lianas shrubs, which has a global distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. Following recent re-circumscription 15 genera as presented in Advances Legume Systematics 14, Part 1, using basis phylogenomic...
The publication of the third Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification (APG III. 2009. An update for orders and families flowering plants: APG Botanical Journal Linnean Society161: 128–131) has resulted in need a revised systematic listing accepted families. This linear III (LAPG III) sequence is presented here.
Premise of the Study Herbarium specimens provide a robust record historical plant phenology (the timing seasonal events such as flowering or fruiting). However, difficulty aggregating phenological data from arises lack standardized scoring methods and definitions for states across collections community. Methods Results To address this problem, we report on consensus reached by an iD igBio working group curators, researchers, standards experts regarding efficient protocol data‐sharing...
Natural History institutes hold an immense number of specimens and artefacts. For years these collections were not accessible online, remaining inaccessible to researchers from far away hidden the general public. Large digitisation projects cross-institutional agreements aim bring their into digital era, such as SYNTHESYS+ project Distributed System Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) Research Infrastructure. As are 3D physical objects with different characteristics many techniques available...
The monophyly of the Peltophorum group, one nine informal groups recognized by Polhill in Caesalpinieae, was tested using sequence data from trnL‐F, rbcL, and rps16 regions chloroplast genome. Exemplars were included all 16 genera 15 representing seven other eight tribe. analyzed separately combined analyses parsimony Bayesian methods. analysis method had little effect on topology well‐supported relationships. molecular recovered a generally phylogeny with many intergeneric relationships...
Discovering biological diversity is a fundamental goal—made urgent by the alarmingly high rate of extinction. We have compiled information from more than 100 000 type specimens to quantify role collectors in discovery plant diversity. Our results show that half all were collected less 2 per cent collectors. This highly skewed pattern has persisted through time. demonstrate number attributes are associated with prolific collectors: long career increasing productivity and experience several...
People are one of the best known and most stable entities in biodiversity knowledge graph. The wealth public information associated with people ability to identify them uniquely open up possibility make more use these data science. Person almost always such as specimens, molecular sequences, taxonomic names, observations, images, traits publications. For example, digitization aggregation specimen from museums herbaria allow us view a scientist's collecting conjunction whole corpus their...
A cladistic analysis is performed using 94 morphological and biochemical characters for 42 genera to compare a phylogeny based on data with those obtained different genes (rbcL, atpB, 18S RNA, matK) or their combination data, understand the floral evolution within expanded Brassicales (Capparales) relative Sapindales Malvales. The tree produced congruent from macromolecular studies in obtaining well-supported glucosinolate-producing clade an Sapindales. combined of molecular generally well...
Digitisation programmes in many institutes frequently involve disparate and irregular funding, diverse selection criteria scope, with different members of staff managing operating the processes. These factors have influenced decision at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to develop an integrated workflow for digitisation herbarium specimens which is modular scalable enable a single overall be used all projects. This comprised three principal elements: specimen workflow, data image workflow.The...
Abstract The taxonomy of the African, Madagascan and Comoro Island (Afro‐Malagasy) Gesneriaceae attracts a large amount interest given horticultural importance Cape Primroses ( Streptocarpus ) African Violets Saintpaulia ). Earlier studies indicated that Afro‐Malagasy genera form strongly supported clade, recent classifications have included some within an expanded . Given global this group, we carried out comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis all in subfamily Didymocarpoideae, tribe...
At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to aid digitisation process has been investigated. This was tested using a herbarium specimen with two stages data entry. Records were initially batch-processed add extracted from OCR text prior being sorted based on Collector and/or Country. Using images specimens, team six digitisers then added records. To investigate whether process, they completed series trials which compared efficiency entry between...
More and more herbaria are digitising their collections. Images of specimens made available online to facilitate access them allow extraction information from them. Transcription the data written on is critical for general discoverability enables incorporation into large aggregated research datasets. Different methods, such as crowdsourcing artificial intelligence, being developed optimise transcription, but herbarium pose difficulties in many reasons. To provide developers transcription...
Abstract Natural history collections constitute an enormous wealth of information Life on Earth. It is estimated that over 2 billion specimens are preserved at institutions worldwide, which less than 10% accessible via biodiversity data aggregators such as GBIF. Moreover, they a very important resource for eco‐evolutionary research, greatly depends knowing the precise location where were collected in order to characterize environment lived. Yet, only about 55% records georeferenced and 31%...
Lowland savannas, covering an area of 2,342 km2, form the third largest ecosystem in Belize yet are unevenly and therefore poorly represented country’s protected system. Based on more than 5,700 herbarium collections, a checklist 957 species vascular plants is presented for this representing ca. 28% Belizean flora, which 54 new records country. Of 41 known to be endemic Belize, 18 have been recorded within lowland savanna, nine listed The World Conservation Union (IUCN) 2010 Red List...
Scientific collections have been built by people. For hundreds of years, people collected, studied, identified, preserved, documented and curated collection specimens. Understanding who those are is interest to historians, but much more can be made these data other stakeholders once they linked the people's identities their biographies. Knowing helps us attribute work correctly, validate understand scientific contribution institutions. We evaluate done, interests have, places worked what...
European natural history collections are a critical infrastructure for meeting the most important challenge humans face over next 30 years – creating sustainable future ourselves and systems on which we depend answering fundamental scientific questions about ecological, evolutionary, geological processes. Since 2004 SYNTHESYS has been an essential instrument supporting this community, underpinning new ways to access exploit collections, harmonising policy providing significant insights...
Natural history collection data available digitally on the web have so far only made limited use of potential semantic links among themselves and with cross-disciplinary resources. In a pilot study, botanical collections Consortium European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) therefore begun to semantically annotate their data, starting people, link them via central index system. As result, it is now possible query collectors across different automatically variety external The system being...
Expeditions and other collecting events are a major source of objects in natural history museums (e.g., Mesibov 2021). Historically, these trips were often transdisciplinary: biological Earth science specimens collected at the same time as ethnological or anthropological objects. As result, material gathered during expedition, well related data metadata, distributed across multiple institutions. Many expeditions driven by colonial agendas, aiming to discover new resources exploit, their...
Logistically, the data associated with biological collections can be divided into three main categories for digitisation: i) Label Data: appearing on specimen a label or annotation; ii) Curatorial containers, boxes, cabinets and folders which hold collections; iii) Supplementary held separately from in indices, archives literature. Each of these have fundamentally different properties within digitisation framework implications capture process. These were assessed relation to alternative...
There are approximately 1.5 billion specimens kept in European Natural History Collections. The mission for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is to unite all these into a one-stop e-science infrastructure digital specimens. This monumental digitisation task and criteria how prioritise this effort are, therefore, crucial success project. In report, we have reviewed literature designed conducted surveys plans used by DiSSCo Partners understand prioritisation natural...