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Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online

Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online
2021-07-23
(Press-News.org) A network of over 100 herbaria spread out across the southeastern United States recently completed the herculean task of fully digitizing more than three million specimens collected by botanists and naturalists over a span of 200 years. The project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a larger, ongoing effort by natural history institutions worldwide to make their biological collections easily accessible to researchers studying broad patterns of evolution, extinction, range shifts, and climate change.

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