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Historical herbarium database analysis for biographical reconstruction

Subcategory: historical analysis
Papers: 3 | Mentions: 7

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Description

Method for extracting and analyzing historical herbarium specimen data to reconstruct the life and career patterns of past collectors, including temporal and spatial analysis of collecting activities.

Typical Equipment

  • Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria database
  • Spreadsheet software
  • GEOLocate software
  • Mapping software

Output Measurements

  • collection dates
  • geographic locations
  • species collected
  • collecting intensity over time

Papers Using This Protocol (3)

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Time's Arrow and the Things We Leave Behind: What Harriet G. Barclay’s Herbarium Collections can Teach us about her life and the land she studied

2023introducing
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Surveying historical patterns in vegetation change (1929-2019) in the upper East River Valley using RMBL's archival herbarium records

2019using
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Expansion of herbaria data based on historically surveyed herbaceous plants in the Crested Butte area, Colorado.

2014introducing