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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Botanical specimens"”.
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Botanical Specimens: A Series of Relief and Intaglio Print Variations Indexing Plant Forms
Botanical Specimens: A Series of Relief and Intaglio Print Variations Indexing Plant Forms, is a series of prints that are meant to stimulate our appreciation for nature. I am creating an interaction between myself and the natural object through the use of printmaking. The structure of modern …
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Locating herbarium specimens in online digital repositories to be used in future retrospective analysis of metal pollutants from pre- and post-1960s in the most polluted city in the United States, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Here we find and analyze herbarium specimens collected throughout the last 100 years from the greater Chattanooga area to future screen them for the presence and concentration of metals. Chattanooga was declared the most polluted city in America in 1969 from the years 1961-1965 due to unchecked …
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Herbarium infrastructure development and ecological applications of specimens using geographic information systems
… a functional infrastructure in order to enhance botanical research. Evaluations were performed on database and georeferencing software for use in the development of a pilot, GIS-enabled website used to query herbaria specimen information. Using this newly created database infrastructure, two …
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The state of herbaria in Tennessee
… efforts to digitize southeastern plant specimens in the United States between 2014-2019. Because of that work, 13 of the 14 herbaria were digitized to varying degrees, producing approximately 894,000 digital vascular plant records. For the first time, the content of these collections …
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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… plants in the Russian Empire for medicinal and botanical purposes from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. It focuses on the itineraries of collection and the spaces of cultivation established by herbalists, doctors, and naturalists in the employ of the …
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Improving wildlife habitat model performance : sensitivity to the scale and detail of vegetation measurements
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, 2009