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Additional biographical notes on plant collectors in southern Africa
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Hans Justus Thode (1859-1932), pioneer plant collector in the Natal Drakensberg
Published 1977-11-01“…Thode was the pioneer plant collector of the Natal Drakensberg, but also collected wider afield in all four provinces of the Republic. …”
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Józef Warszewicz (1812–1866) and taxonomical history of Warszewiczia coccinea (Vahl) Klotzsch
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Maurice Mason – farmer, plant hunter and friend to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
Published 2021-01-01“… Maurice Mason is well documented as an accomplished amateur horticulturist and plant collector. His contributions to horticulture were recognised by his guest attendance at the Kew Guild Annual Dinner in 1960 and the award of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal of Honour in the same year. …”
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Snapshots of tropical diversity: collecting plants in Colonial and Imperial Brazil
Published 2018“…<p style="text-align:justify;">The riches of the tropical natural history have attracted European plant collectors, and their sponsors, for centuries. Today these collections are preserved in the world’s great scientific collections and have become essential for understanding the evolution of tropical plant diversity. …”
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(Auto)portret intelektualny Antoniego Rehmana a formy komunikacji z czytelnikami w Kilku kartkach z Kaukazu
Published 2021-12-01“…Passages from a Journey Previously not Announced in Print, Made in 1873, published in 1879 in the Pamiętnik Towarzystwa Tatrzańskiego [Tatra Society Memoir] by Antoni Rehman, a Galician scholar, traveller and plant collector. The author of the article endeavours to identify elements of an intellectual (self)portrait of Rehman, evident in the author’s strategies of describing the region. …”
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The Learned Gardeners of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Tartu and Their Activities (1803–1918)
Published 2014-06-01“…Petersburg and Poland, respectively, and Riedel emerged as a sucessful plant collector, scientific organiser and developer of park culture in Brazil.…”
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Influence of environment and aging materials on the performance of solar chimney power plants
Published 2021-01-01“…This paper investigates the technical feasibility of using a locally-produced plastic film (Low-Density Poly-Ethylene “LDPE”) as a solar chimney power plant collector cover. The idea is to combine a very low-cost material with a simple technical solution. …”
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KAJIAN PEMASARAN RUMPUT LAUT (Eucheuma Cottoni) (Studi Kasus Desa Tanjung, Pademawu, Pamekasan)
Published 2012-10-01“…B) there are two seaweed marketing channels, first: farmers – middlemen – plant collectors – factories, second: farmers – plant collectors – factories. …”
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Big hitting collectors make massive and disproportionate contribution to the discovery of plant species.
Published 2012“…We demonstrate that a number of attributes are associated with prolific plant collectors: a long career with increasing productivity and experience in several countries and plant families. …”
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EDUCATION OF PARTICIPANTS IN MAP SECTOR WITH AN AIM TO IMPROVE MARKET COMPETITIVENESS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA
Published 2018-12-01“… There are many problems appearing in MAP sector during collection, growing and marketing of medicinal and aromatic plants, such as: decrease in number of plant collectors, absence of licensed plant collectors, decrease in the surface under medicinal and aromatic, absence of subventions in large-scale production, ignorance and restrictiveness of the low regulations that treat this field, etc. …”
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Information available within the PRECIS data bank of the National Herbarium, Pretoria, with examples of uses to which it may be put
Published 1981-11-01“…The frequency distributions found are discussed in the light of the history of the herbarium, the geography of the area and the habits of plant collectors. Two uses of PRECIS are illustrated by example. …”
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The Northern Lads :
Published 2013-10-01“…It is well known that a disproportionate number of plant collectors for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the late 18th and 19th centuries were Scottish gardeners. …”
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Crossing the Caucasus hunting for plants: the collection itinerary of the botanists Stéphen Sommier and Émile Levier in the summer of 1890
Published 2024-12-01“…ABSTRACTStéphen Sommier and Émile Levier were eminent botanists and plant collectors (but also ethno-anthropologists, geographers and photographers), best known for their scientific travels in Italy and abroad. …”
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IMPACT OF TRADITIONAL PRACTICES ON MEDICINAL PLANT TRADE IN THE RAINFOREST OF NIGERIA
Published 2010-09-01“…A questionnaire survey and market-based observations were used to derive data from 110 stakeholders including: plant collectors, sellers, middlemen and traditional healers. …”
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Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation
Published 2021-09-01“…Abstract We demonstrate how native and nonnative plant taxa used as ornamentals in private and public urban green spaces can significantly strengthen plant conservation in time of extinctions by expanding the capacity for ex situ living collections and raising awareness among professional and private gardeners and plant collectors. Based on global databases, we document the current representation of threatened plant taxa in horticulture compared to collections in botanical gardens. …”
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The Hintons’ legacy to the knowledge of the flora of Mexico
Published 2019-09-01“… Background: The Hinton family comprises three generations of plant collectors that have made an important contribution to the knowledge of the flora of Mexico. …”
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