Digitizing 6 million plant specimens: Interview with Gunter Fischer & Jordan Teisher

Mongabay
Jan 24, 2025, 6:37 am148 pts
How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or morphology, of plants, as well as their origins and global distribution. Scale that up to 6 million specimens, and you have a treasure trove…

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