Aguado-Lara et al. trace the #biogeographic history of the world's most isolated insular #floras, and highlight the urgent need for conservation plans in the sub-Antarctic, especially in the face of #ClimateChange.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13170
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #evolution #plant #botany

📢#OutNow in #OA: '#Decolonial #Ecologies: The Reinvention of #NaturalHistory in #LatinAmerican #Art', by Joanna Page.

In this book, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which #contemporary #artists in #LatinAmerica are reinventing #historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new #aesthetic and #political perspectives on the past and the present.

Page brings together an entirely new corpus of #artistic projects from #Argentina, #Brazil, #Chile, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Mexico, and #Peru that engage critically and creatively with forms as diverse as the #medieval #bestiary, #baroque #cabinetsofcuriosities, atlases created by #European travellers to the #NewWorld, the #floras and #herbaria composed by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century #naturalists, and the #dioramas designed for #naturalhistory #museums.

Access this OA title for free or get a hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339

Hey #botany & #biology #researchers! I’m looking into #OCR software right now because I’m interested in extracting flower trait information from #floras & botanical #monographs.
Does anyone have an idea if such a tool exists? Pls let me know!!