Biodiversity Conservation Network Manager. World Flora Online & Global Conservation Consortium Rhododendron. Frae Angus. All things #Himalayan.
Penicuik, iScotland , Eòrpa
Joined December 2011
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.@TheWorldFlora : Placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world's plants. Open access article in Taxon. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Its that time of year again. The June 2024 @TheWorldFlora Plant List and data release happened yesterday.
Find our about the update here.
about.worldfloraonline.org/a…
The 40k additional names, 1.39million name records with a classification, nomenclature or data improvement is thanks to @IPNI_UK, @mobotgarden's Tropicos, 140 contributors from our Taxonomic Expert Networks and @KewScience's WCVP/POWO.
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Pleased to welcome @rododendrs to the @bgci's GCC Rhododendron. They have already taken stewardship of one of Europe's most threatened Rhododendron species to work toward effective conservation.
app.sheepcrm.com/bgci/news/1…
We sent the December 2023 @TheWorldFlora Plant List wfoplantlist.org/ and data release out the door to @catalogueoflife Checklistbank & @Zendo on Friday.
38k more names & 1.34million records had data improvements.
Find release notes here about.worldfloraonline.org/a…
I was not prepared for this @IAMKP & @pippamurph. Constantly trying not to greet on a busy bus to the Botanics this morning.
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As part of SYM12 Improving the quality of taxonomic data publishing and list building at @TDWG #TDWG2023.
@RBGE_Science will be presenting on 'A strategy for building @TheWorldFlora plant list' doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.11133… via @BISS_Journal
.@TheWorldFlora June 2023 Data release is now live.
20k additional names.
370k names from 353 plant families have have classification and/or nomenclatural updates.
check a plant name here.
wfoplantlist.org/plant-list/
Summary of changes here.
about.worldfloraonline.org/j…
Data is also available at
The Zenodo repository is under this DOI doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.74601…
The data has been submitted to Checklist Bank (Catalogue of Life/GBIF) checklistbank.org/dataset/20…
#OpenData #taxonomy #plants
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My new favourite bit of botanical whimsy.
Erica hybrasiliensis M.Elphinstone sp. fabula.
biodiversitylibrary.org/page…
Endemic to the [mythic] island of Hy-brasil (Uí Breasail) in the Atlantic.
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Spring festival celebrates Scotland's 'other' national flower thenational.scot/news/235129…
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WFO (@TheWorldFlora) Consortium member @SANBI_ZA have just published the e-Flora of South Africa, covering 6% of the world's plants.
Read about it here:
about.worldfloraonline.org/e…
#openaccess #data
Access it here:
biodiversityadvisor.sanbi.or…
An American in Kathmandu.
When is a Nepalese pine not a Nepalese pine? - go.shr.lc/3ladAE7 @TheBotanics
The @TheWorldFlora December 2022 release is out.
You can browse the updated checklist at wfoplantlist.org
And get a summary of the changes since June here.
about.worldfloraonline.org/d…
Finally we've released the whole backbone in downloadable and citable formats. See below.
The World Flora Online Consortium, Elliott, Alan, Hyam, Roger, Ulate, William, Katabathuni, Sunitha, Miller, Chuck, & Watson, Mark. (2022). World Flora Online Checklist, December 2022 (2022-12) [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.74673…
<strong>Stories from the Biomes: Moving the Ericaceous Collection</strong> - go.shr.lc/3g9AycE @TheBotanics
Ha he used that picture of me! 🤦♂️
Roger Hyam @TheBotanics explaininig @TheWorldFlora #rhakhis workflow
#tdwg2022 @mobotgarden @KewScience
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🔜 Ahead of next month's #TDWG2022, our journal, the @tdwg's official scholarly outlet, provides you with access to the the conference abstracts.
👉 Explore what's coming up at Symposium 01, dedicated to linking #plant #data: biss.pensoft.net/collection/…🌱#Biodiversity #Flora #Botany
Plant of the Week - 23rd May 2022- Rhododendron ponticum botsocscot.wordpress.com/202…
Replying to a @TheWorldFlora taxonomic query. I discovered this little bit of amazing taken from @MOOPellegrini's work on Pontederiaceae.
Pontederia crassipes is in the subgenus Oshunae
The subgeneric name is derived from the Yoruba words “Oxum”, “Oshun” and “Osun”.
A wee 🧵
ALT An image of the the inflorescence of a water hyacinth flowering in the glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Catalogue of Life (@catalogueoflife), in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (@GBIF) are looking for someone to assemble a semi-automated part of the COL Checklist.
catalogueoflife.org/2022/08/…
#taxonomy #species #biodiversity #datajob