The Decline of Plant Collecting in the United States: A Threat to the Infrastructure of Biodiversity Studies

By L. A. Prather, Orlando Alvarez-Fuentes, M. Mayfield, C. Ferguson. 2004

97 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. D. Roberts
2. A. Davy
3. Karen M. Robbirt
4. M. Hutchings
5. Priscilla H. C. Crawford
6. Bruce Hoagland

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. D. Roberts
2. A. Davy
3. Karen M. Robbirt
4. M. Hutchings
5. Priscilla H. C. Crawford
6. Bruce Hoagland

In Plant Science

1. M. Hutchings
2. Priscilla H. C. Crawford
3. Bruce Hoagland

Citations in the corpus

• Validation of biological collections as a source of phenological data for use in climate change studies: a case study with the orchid Ophrys sphegodes (2011, background): “With appropriate validation, the exploitation of this resource will have increasing relevance and value (Prather et al. 2004) as we seek to understand and predict the consequences of continuing climate change.”
• Can herbarium records be used to map alien species invasion and native species expansion over the past 100 years? (2009, background): “Unfortunately they are threatened institutions; plant collecting in the USA is in decline (Prather et al., 2004), a trend confounded by a reduced interest in plant taxonomy (Wortley et al.”