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Art at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Art at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The commissioning and / or creation of new artworks is a fundamental part of the work of plant taxonomists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to discover, describe and allocate scientific names to all plant species. As a result the RBGE…
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Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Jack Baker. 'Enhancing the Impact of Botanical Collections on Policy for Climate & Conservation Outcomes'. Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between RBGE and the University of Edinburgh, funded by the AHRC. Claire Banks. 'Company…
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Flora of Nepal
Flora of Nepal
Accurate identification is fundamental to managing a country's plant resources, setting priorities for conservation and monitoring rare species. Nepal's population is mainly rural, and its people use plants from their local environment for food,…
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Sibbaldia
Sibbaldia
Sibbaldia is a diamond open access journal that offers horticulturists and botanic garden professionals worldwide a platform to share their expertise in managing and maintaining living plant collections Horticulture in botanic gardens is incredibly…
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Ex Situ Conservation
Ex Situ Conservation
To deliver Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, we have secured 86% of Scotland's threatened plant species in ex situ collections. We maintain a living collection of rare and threatened plant species, sampled from meticolously…
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Floras, Checklists and Inventories
Floras, Checklists and Inventories
Many parts of the tropics are poorly known botanically. A major aspect of the Tropical Section's efforts are to explore these poorly known regions and to compile data on the plants found there. This data is then published as checklists or…
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Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae
RBGE is the leading European centre of taxonomic research on the Zingiberaceae and is among the foremost in the world. Various approaches are used to gather the maximum information on these plants, such as revising groups of species for floras and…
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Where we work
Where we work
RBGE's science builds on knowledge exchange and collaborative partnerships, many established over decades or even centuries of working together. With projects in over 40 countries, our work is guided by key international policies including the…
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Prof Catherine Kidner
Prof Catherine Kidner
Email: c.kidner@rbge.org.uk Phone: +44 (0)131 248 2838 Google Scholar Understanding Diversity We are interested in determining the genetics underlying differences between species. We would like to know how…
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Dr Giada Ferrari
Dr Giada Ferrari
Giada obtained her PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Zurich, working on shotgun metagenomic approaches to detect pathogens in preserved soft tissues. She then held a postdoc position at the University of Oslo, focusing on ancient…