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 Smithsonian: The Plant Press Newsletter Volume 9.2
Page 12 Chromolaena odorata is one of the many spe- cies from Barro Colo- rado Island (BCI), Panama, that will be added to the DNA barcode library (see cover story). BCI was declared a biological reserve in 1923, and is currently supervised by the Smithsonian Tropi- cal Research Institute (ST...
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Page 12 Chromolaena odorata is one of the many spe- cies from Barro Colo- rado Island (BCI), Panama, that will be added to the DNA barcode library (see cover story). BCI was declared a biological reserve in 1923, and is currently supervised by the Smithsonian Tropi- cal Research Institute (STRI). The island, an international center for tropical research, is one of the most im- portant and well- studied biological reserves, and remains as one of the few areas of tropical forest in the world where the entire
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of helping Guyana publish a new scientific <span class="highlight">journal</span>. The Contributions to the Study of <span class="highlight">Biological</span> Diversity, a new publication series aimed at contribu- tion to our knowledge about the Guyana region, is published out of the Centre for the Study of <span class="highlight">Biological</span> Diversity, Univer- sity of Guyana (UG) in Georgetown, Guyana. It is edited by Philip DaSilva, Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences (UG) and Funk and Kelloff (SI). The first volume was published in 2003 and contained a paper by Kelloff. The second volume has
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Page 12 Chromolaena odorata is one of the many spe- cies from Barro Colo- rado Island (BCI), Panama, that will be added to the DNA barcode library (see cover story). BCI was declared a <span class="highlight">biological</span> reserve in 1923, and is currently supervised by the Smithsonian Tropi- cal Research Institute (STRI). The island, <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> center for tropical research, is one of the most im- portant and well- studied <span class="highlight">biological</span> reserves, and remains as one of the few areas of tropical forest in the world where the entire
Smithsonian: The Plant Press Newsletter Volume 5.2
unjustified exception of the United States of America; 2) providing a forum to merge environmental, social and economic concerns; 3) mapping the issues of common concern to all nations and establishing a series of ecosystem-based work programs and complementary cross- cutting initiatives; 4)...
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unjustified exception of the United States of America; 2) providing a forum to merge environmental, social and economic concerns; 3) mapping the issues of common concern to all nations and establishing a series of ecosystem-based work programs and complementary cross- cutting initiatives; 4) establishing an international protocol on biosafety for the transboundary movement of genetically- modified-organisms; and 5) establishing an international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. The CBD has
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unjustified exception of the United States of America; 2) providing a <span class="highlight">forum</span> to merge environmental, social and economic concerns; 3) mapping the issues of common concern to all nations and establishing a series of ecosystem-based work programs and complementary cross- cutting initiatives; 4) establishing <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> protocol on biosafety for the transboundary movement of genetically- modified-organisms; and 5) establishing <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. The CBD has
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Page 10 Communication among sectors remains spotty. The CBD and FAO joint work program in agricultural biodiversity is <span class="highlight">an</span> opportunity to bring the environment and agriculture sectors together. Bringing technical and policy issues together remains challenging. The Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) is a model for science informing policy. Very few countries can say that activities related to the CBD have greatly enhanced the ability of end users to access greater quality and quantity of biodiversity
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hotspots in Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago. The following publications also contribute to this target: Clarke, H.D. and V.A. Funk. 2005. Using checklists and collections data to investigate plant diversity. II. An analy- sis of five florulas from northeastern South America. Proceedi...
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hotspots in Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago. The following publications also contribute to this target: Clarke, H.D. and V.A. Funk. 2005. Using checklists and collections data to investigate plant diversity. II. An analy- sis of five florulas from northeastern South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 154: 29-37. Funk, V.A., K.S. Richardson and S. Ferrier. 2005. Survey-gap analysis in expedi- tionary research, where do we go from here? Biological Journal of the Linnean
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hotspots in Southeast Asia and the Malay Archipelago. The following publications also contribute to this target: Clarke, H.D. and V.A. Funk. 2005. Using checklists and collections data to investigate plant diversity. II. <span class="highlight">An</span> analy- sis of five florulas from northeastern South America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 154: 29-37. Funk, V.A., K.S. Richardson and S. Ferrier. 2005. Survey-gap analysis in expedi- tionary research, where do we go from here? <span class="highlight">Biological</span> <span class="highlight">Journal</span> of the Linnean
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training of students and scientists both in the US and Guyana, assisting them in their research, and establishing or maintaining their collec- tions. The Centre has organized training classes for Amerindian guides, provided lectures to the public, taught short intense taxonomy classes on various gro...
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training of students and scientists both in the US and Guyana, assisting them in their research, and establishing or maintaining their collec- tions. The Centre has organized training classes for Amerindian guides, provided lectures to the public, taught short intense taxonomy classes on various groups, helped organize the first international scientific meeting held in Guyana in re- cent memory, and started its own journal. With a few exceptions, such as cities along the Río Orinoco (Venezuela), the Rupununi
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training of students and scientists both in the US and Guyana, assisting them in their research, and establishing or maintaining their collec- tions. The Centre has organized training classes for Amerindian guides, provided lectures to the public, taught short intense taxonomy classes on various groups, helped organize the first <span class="highlight">international</span> scientific meeting held in Guyana in re- cent memory, and started its own <span class="highlight">journal</span>. With a few exceptions, such as cities along the Río Orinoco (Venezuela), the Rupununi
Smithsonian: The Plant Press Newsletter Volume 8.1
Page 11 Publications Bawa, K.S., W.J. Kress, N. Nadkarni, and S. Lele. 2004. Beyond paradise - meeting the challenge in tropical biology in the 21st century. Biotropica 36: 437-446. The reduced Compositae supertree showing tribes and a few other taxa. for determining critical areas of the tree for f...
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Page 11 Publications Bawa, K.S., W.J. Kress, N. Nadkarni, and S. Lele. 2004. Beyond paradise - meeting the challenge in tropical biology in the 21st century. Biotropica 36: 437-446. The reduced Compositae supertree showing tribes and a few other taxa. for determining critical areas of the tree for future work. The creation of the supertree was an outgrowth of a new organization “The International Compos- itae Alliance” (TICA) that had its first international meeting in Pretoria, January 2003, and the
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Page 11 Publications Bawa, K.S., W.J. Kress, N. Nadkarni, and S. Lele. 2004. Beyond paradise - meeting the challenge in tropical biology in the 21st century. Biotropica 36: 437-446. The reduced Compositae supertree showing tribes and a few other taxa. for determining critical areas of the tree for future work. The creation of the supertree was <span class="highlight">an</span> outgrowth of a new organization “The <span class="highlight">International</span> Compos- itae Alliance” (TICA) that had its first <span class="highlight">international</span> meeting in Pretoria, January 2003, and the
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accessible at <http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ botany/pubs/CUSNH/>. The Contribu- tions series has featured externally peer- reviewed articles of scientific botanical research since 1890 (see Plant Press, vol. 7, no. 4; 2004). These articles include taxonomic papers, checklists, floras, and monographs...
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accessible at <http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ botany/pubs/CUSNH/>. The Contribu- tions series has featured externally peer- reviewed articles of scientific botanical research since 1890 (see Plant Press, vol. 7, no. 4; 2004). These articles include taxonomic papers, checklists, floras, and monographs produced by the staff and associates at the U.S. National Herbarium. PDF files of the most recent issues (vol. 49-present) of the journal are available, as well as an illustrated list of all previous issues (vol. 39-present
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accessible at <http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ botany/pubs/CUSNH/>. The Contribu- tions series has featured externally peer- reviewed articles of scientific botanical research since 1890 (see Plant Press, vol. 7, no. 4; 2004). These articles include taxonomic papers, checklists, floras, and monographs produced by the staff and associates at the U.S. National Herbarium. PDF files of the most recent issues (vol. 49-present) of the <span class="highlight">journal</span> are available, as well as <span class="highlight">an</span> illustrated list of all previous issues (vol. 39-present
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six polyphyletic clades in the tribe Alpinieae. This paper provides the phylogenetic basis for erecting a new classification and generic boundaries of the subfamily Apinioideae, <span class="highlight">an</span> equally important evolutionary framework for tracing the pathways of plant-pollinator interactions. American <span class="highlight">Journal</span> of Botany cover illustration: At the Cai Yung Hu Reserve in Yunnan, China, the single anther of a flower of Alpinia blepharo- calyx (Zingiberaceae) deposits pollen on the back of a Bombus pollinator as it enters the
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Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Currently, Acevedo is preparing taxonomic treatments of the families Araceae (with Dan H. Nicolson), Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, and Cyperaceae (with research assistant Mark T. Strong) for a publication on “Mono- cots of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Isla...
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Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Currently, Acevedo is preparing taxonomic treatments of the families Araceae (with Dan H. Nicolson), Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, and Cyperaceae (with research assistant Mark T. Strong) for a publication on “Mono- cots of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,” a project originated by George R. Proctor (Jamaica), and being edited by Acevedo. He is approximately half done with a draft of Sapindaceae for the “Flora of the Guianas,” an international project being edited at
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Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Currently, Acevedo is preparing taxonomic treatments of the families Araceae (with Dan H. Nicolson), Dioscoreaceae, Smilacaceae, and Cyperaceae (with research assistant Mark T. Strong) for a publication on “Mono- cots of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,” a project originated by George R. Proctor (Jamaica), and being edited by Acevedo. He is approximately half done with a draft of Sapindaceae for the “Flora of the Guianas,” <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> project being edited at
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ratification of the CBD seemed to support a renewed and invigorated effort to document and describe the biological world. The “cause of bio- diversity” was transformed from a local issue to an international concern: the globalization of biodiversity was achieved. And a...
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ratification of the CBD seemed to support a renewed and invigorated effort to document and describe the biological world. The “cause of bio- diversity” was transformed from a local issue to an international concern: the globalization of biodiversity was achieved. And as part of this globalization, natural history researchers worldwide were poised to provide the scientific information necessary for understanding and conserving the plants and animals of the planet. Never before had museum scientists been faced with such
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ratification of the CBD seemed to support a renewed and invigorated effort to document and describe the <span class="highlight">biological</span> world. The “cause of bio- diversity” was transformed from a local issue to <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> concern: the globalization of biodiversity was achieved. And as part of this globalization, natural history researchers worldwide were poised to provide the scientific information necessary for understanding and conserving the plants and animals of the planet. Never before had museum scientists been faced with such
Smithsonian: The Plant Press Newsletter Volume 6.2
and animals are threatened or endangered by one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation and associated population growth. These stresses, together with the country’s rapid opening of an international market economy, bring particular urgency to the need for up-to- date ...
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and animals are threatened or endangered by one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation and associated population growth. These stresses, together with the country’s rapid opening of an international market economy, bring particular urgency to the need for up-to- date biological information, training, and conservation to protect Vietnam’s unique biodiversity. Numerous organizations have given support to Vietnam in the area of biodiver- sity conservation, but none has been more active in the field of
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and animals are threatened or endangered by one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation and associated population growth. These stresses, together with the country’s rapid opening of <span class="highlight">an</span> <span class="highlight">international</span> market economy, bring particular urgency to the need for up-to- date <span class="highlight">biological</span> information, training, and conservation to protect Vietnam’s unique biodiversity. Numerous organizations have given support to Vietnam in the area of biodiver- sity conservation, but none has been more active in the field of
Smithsonian: The Plant Press Newsletter Volume 4.4
Page 7 A recent symposium on the biodiver- sity of Guyana was generously supported by an anonymous donation received through the Office of the Associate Direc- tor for Research and Collections (ADRC) in the National Museum of Natural History, and by the Biological Diversity of the Guia...
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Page 7 A recent symposium on the biodiver- sity of Guyana was generously supported by an anonymous donation received through the Office of the Associate Direc- tor for Research and Collections (ADRC) in the National Museum of Natural History, and by the Biological Diversity of the Guianas (BDG) Program. Instrumental in the success of the undertaking were Carol Kelloff, assistant director of BDG who organized the meeting, and Tom Hollowell, data manager of BDG who coordinated the informative poster sessions
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Page 7 A recent symposium on the biodiver- sity of Guyana was generously supported by <span class="highlight">an</span> anonymous donation received through the Office of the Associate Direc- tor for Research and Collections (ADRC) in the National Museum of Natural History, and by the <span class="highlight">Biological</span> Diversity of the Guianas (BDG) Program. Instrumental in the success of the undertaking were Carol Kelloff, assistant director of BDG who organized the meeting, and Tom Hollowell, data manager of BDG who coordinated the informative poster sessions
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