TCN: Collaborative Research: Digitization and Enrichment of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa to Enable Urgent Quantitative Conservation Assessments: Difference between revisions

TCN: Collaborative Research: Digitization and Enrichment of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa to Enable Urgent Quantitative Conservation Assessments (view source)

522 bytes added , 10 June 2024

Manual_confirmed

97

edits

@@ Line 123: / Line 123: @@
 === Protocols & Workflows ===
-Taxonomy list of African plants prepared by Tim Whitfeld and George Weiblen of the University of Minnesota, including
+The Missouri Botanical Garden team initiated contact with Cyrille Chatelain from Geneva, responsible for the African Plant Database (APD),
+and Chatelain provided a copy of the APD for the project. The University of Minnesota team then quality-controlled the APD dataset, and created a clean and
+effective version thereof, for use by the project, which has the dual advantage of creating a controlled vocabulary for each institutional dataset, and of moving all
+project datasets to a common taxonomic authority.
+Product: Taxonomy list of African plants prepared by Tim Whitfeld and George Weiblen of the University of Minnesota, including
 families, 6666 genera, 38193 species (accepted names), 43960 species synonyms, 5466 subspecies (accepted
 names), 1256 subspecies synonyms, 3714 varieties (accepted names), 6768 variety synonyms, 166 forms (accepted