Using the “Natural History Large Hadron Collider” to tell us about plant diversity

Knapp, S2019-04-032019-04-032017-03-072017-03-07Knapp, S. (2017) Using the “Natural History Large Hadron Collider” to tell us about plant diversity. [Online] Available from: https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2017/03/07/using-the-natural-history-large-hadron-collider-to-tell-us-about-plant-diversity/ [accessed 3rd April 2019]http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622462A study published today in BMC Biology uses the RAINBIO dataset, a database of herbarium specimens, to analyze African plant diversity. In this blog we invited Sandra Knapp, a plant taxonomist at the Natural History Museum in London, to talk about the study and the importance of herbaria, which she regards as the “CERN of natural history”.openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/herbaria; digitisation; dataUsing the “Natural History Large Hadron Collider” to tell us about plant diversityInternet PublicationAfricaBMC BiologyFloraHerbariaNatural History Museumplant