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In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

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By (author): Maura C. Flannery

How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science
 
Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowing them to describe and differentiate species and to document and research plant changes and biodiversity over timeincluding changes related to climate.
 
Maura C. Flannery tells the history of herbaria, from the earliest collections belonging to such advocates of the technique as sixteenth-century botanist Luca Ghini, to the collections of poets, politicians, and painters, and to the digitization of these precious specimens today. She charts the growth of herbaria during the Age of Exploration, the development of classification systems to organize the collections, and herbarias indispensable role in the tracking of climate change and molecular evolution. Herbaria also have historical, aesthetic, cultural, and ethnobotanical valuethese preserved plants can be linked to the Indigenous peoples who used them, the collectors who sought them out, and the scientists who studied them.
 
This book testifies to the central role of herbaria in the history of plant study and to their continued value, not only to biologists but to entirely new users as well: gardeners, artists, students, and citizen-scientists. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300247916

About Maura C. Flannery

Maura C. Flannery is professor emerita of biology at St. Johns University New York and research affiliate in the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of two previous books and a blog herbariumworld.wordpress.com. She lives in Aiken SC.

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