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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Symbioses in Herbaria: Recommendations for More Positive Interactions between Plant Systematists and Ecologists
Contributor:
Stern, Margaret J.;
Eriksson, Torsten
imprint:
International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature, 1996
Published in:Taxon
Language:
English
ISSN:
0040-0262
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Herbarium collections have traditionally been used primarily by systematists, including monographers and writers of floras. It is suggested here that herbarium material has eclectic value for use by many non-traditional users, but only to the extent that care is taken by collectors and other researchers who benefit from collections. Suggestive examples relating to ecology, conservation biology, and systematics are presented (drawing on studies of distribution, plasticity, epiphylls, insect-plant associations, molecular phylogenetics, and population genetics) where herbarium material would have been more valuable if it had been collected with potential multiple uses in mind. It is also argued that the quality of specimens is in most cases more important than their quantity.</p>