Herbarium. The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World's Plants
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- Nombre de pages279
- PrésentationRelié
- FormatCompact
- Poids1.2 kg
- Dimensions22,8 cm × 26,2 cm × 2,8 cm
- ISBN978-1-60469-930-2
- EAN9781604699302
- Date de parution08/12/2020
- ÉditeurTimber Press
Résumé
Renaissance scholar Luca Ghini likely created the first one. Lewis and Clark, James Cook, Charles Darwin, and George Washington Carver all contributed to them. Today they number more than 3,300, spread across 178 countries. They are the repositories holding preserved specimens of our world's plants, fungi, and other organisms each collection known as an herbarium. Together, the world's herbaria house nearly 390 million examples of what grows on planet Earth.
In Herbarium, Barbara M. Thiers shares the intriguing and often dramatic accounts of how these collections came to be, the important role they have played through history, and the painstaking lengths both gatherers and botanists have gone to in the name of plant archiving. Thiers also argues passionately for the preservation of herbaria and for their essential function in protecting plant life for future generations.
Illustrated with historical material from the collection at the New York Botanical Garden and a wide range of other herbaria, Herbarium is an important addition to the personal libraries of plant fans, conservationists, and anyone fascinated by the ways we identify and document our natural world.
In Herbarium, Barbara M. Thiers shares the intriguing and often dramatic accounts of how these collections came to be, the important role they have played through history, and the painstaking lengths both gatherers and botanists have gone to in the name of plant archiving. Thiers also argues passionately for the preservation of herbaria and for their essential function in protecting plant life for future generations.
Illustrated with historical material from the collection at the New York Botanical Garden and a wide range of other herbaria, Herbarium is an important addition to the personal libraries of plant fans, conservationists, and anyone fascinated by the ways we identify and document our natural world.
Renaissance scholar Luca Ghini likely created the first one. Lewis and Clark, James Cook, Charles Darwin, and George Washington Carver all contributed to them. Today they number more than 3,300, spread across 178 countries. They are the repositories holding preserved specimens of our world's plants, fungi, and other organisms each collection known as an herbarium. Together, the world's herbaria house nearly 390 million examples of what grows on planet Earth.
In Herbarium, Barbara M. Thiers shares the intriguing and often dramatic accounts of how these collections came to be, the important role they have played through history, and the painstaking lengths both gatherers and botanists have gone to in the name of plant archiving. Thiers also argues passionately for the preservation of herbaria and for their essential function in protecting plant life for future generations.
Illustrated with historical material from the collection at the New York Botanical Garden and a wide range of other herbaria, Herbarium is an important addition to the personal libraries of plant fans, conservationists, and anyone fascinated by the ways we identify and document our natural world.
In Herbarium, Barbara M. Thiers shares the intriguing and often dramatic accounts of how these collections came to be, the important role they have played through history, and the painstaking lengths both gatherers and botanists have gone to in the name of plant archiving. Thiers also argues passionately for the preservation of herbaria and for their essential function in protecting plant life for future generations.
Illustrated with historical material from the collection at the New York Botanical Garden and a wide range of other herbaria, Herbarium is an important addition to the personal libraries of plant fans, conservationists, and anyone fascinated by the ways we identify and document our natural world.
