[PCA] NEWS: Prolific Plant Hunters Provide Insight in Strategy for Collecting Undiscovered Plant Species
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Mon Feb 6 07:47:57 CST 2012
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120201181445.htm
Prolific Plant Hunters Provide Insight in Strategy for Collecting
Undiscovered Plant Species
ScienceDaily (Feb. 1, 2012) -- Today's alarmingly high rate of plant
extinction necessitates an increased understanding of the world's
biodiversity. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of the world's flowering
plants have yet to be discovered, making efficiency an integral function
of future botanical research -- but how is this best accomplished?
Botanist Dr. Gerrit Davidse, John S. Lehmann Curator of Grasses at the
Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis has collaborated with eight British
botanists to quantify the role of plant collectors in the discovery of
plant diversity.
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