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)

student_paper

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

student_paper

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

2019using

student_paper

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

2014introducing