I am interested in the evolution, systematics and biogeography of flowering plants, especially Melastomataceae and Campanulaceae. To make my life more complicated, I am also a co-developer of web tools (TOLKIN, BiSciCol and RegNum) that serve the biodiversity and phyloinformatics communities. To top this off, I am generally interested in semantic data integration and interoperability.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery
A very nice article published in PNAS enhancing the role of herbaria (and other museum collections, really!) in biodiversity research. Of all the new species I have described, only one I found in the field. Discoveries are really made around the corner...in many cases. The statistics presented is really interesting! Great read! See paper here
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