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Greve, Michelle
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Lykke, Anne Mette
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Fagg, Christopher W.
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Gereau, Roy E.
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Lewis, Gwilym P.
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Marchant, Rob
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Marshall, Andrew R.
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Ndayishimiye, Joël
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Bogaert, Jan
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Svenning, Jens-Christian
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-08-04T10:52:53Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-07 |
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dc.description.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. |
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dc.description.department |
Plant Science |
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dc.description.embargo |
2017-07-31 |
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dc.description.librarian |
hb2016 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The Faculty of Science at Aarhus University (MG); Research and Development Funding – University of Pretoria (MG), Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences, grant 272-07-0242 (JCS and MG); the Undesert Project, EU-FP7 243906 (AML); the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenburg Foundation (ARM, RG and RM, in collaboration with the African Conservation Centre, Nairobi); and BRIC of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Belgian Technical Cooperation (JN). |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/sajb |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Greve, M, Lykke, AM, Fagg, CW, Gereau, RE, Lewis, GP, Marchant, R, Marshall, AR, Ndayishimiye, J, Bogaert, J & Svenning, J-C 2016, 'Realising the potential of herbarium records for conservation biology', South African Journal of Botany, vol. 105, pp. 317-323. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0254-6299 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1727-9321 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1016/j.sajb.2016.03.017 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56194 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Elsevier |
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dc.rights |
© 2016 SAAB. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Notice : this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in South African Journal of Botany. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in South African Journal of Botany, vol. 105, pp. 317-323, 2016. doi : 10.1016/j.sajb.2016.03.017. |
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dc.subject |
Biological collections |
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dc.subject |
Database |
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dc.subject |
Historical records |
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dc.subject |
Label information |
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dc.subject |
Long-term data collections |
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dc.subject |
Trait |
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dc.title |
Realising the potential of herbarium records for conservation biology |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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