Realising the potential of herbarium records for conservation biology.

Michelle Greve; Anne M. Lykke; Robert Marchant; Christopher W. Fagg; Roy E. Gereau; Gwilym P. Lewis; Andrew Robert Marshall; Joel Ndayishimiye; Jan Bogaert; Jens-Christian Svenning

doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2016.03.017

Realising the potential of herbarium records for conservation biology.

Michelle Greve, Anne M. Lykke, Robert Marchant, Christopher W. Fagg, Roy E. Gereau, Gwilym P. Lewis, Andrew Robert Marshall, Joel Ndayishimiye, Jan Bogaert, Jens-Christian Svenning

Environment and Geography

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Abstract

One of the major challenges in ecosystem conservation is obtaining baseline data, particularly for regions that have been poorly inventoried, such as regions of the African continent. Here we use a database of African herbarium records and examples from the literature to show that, although herbarium records have traditionally been collected to build botanical reference "libraries" for taxonomic and inventory purposes, they provide valuable and useful information regarding species, their distribution in time and space, their traits, phenological characteristics, associated species and their physical environment. These data have the potential to provide invaluable information to feed into evidence-based conservation decisions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	317-323
Number of pages	7
Journal	South African Journal of Botany
Volume	105
Early online date	21 May 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2016.03.017
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Biological collections
Database
Historical records
Label information
Long-term data collection
Trait

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