Museums and Biodiversity: new species discovery in existing collections

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A PNAS paper explores the way in which new species of plants are described from specimens that may already have been in herbarium collections for many years, and underlines the importance of collections for discovering diversity.  Also on NHM science news blog.

Bebber, DP, Carine, MA, Wood, JRI, Wortley, AH, Harris, DJ, Prance, GT, Davids, G, Paige, J, Pennington, TD, Robson, NKB and Scotland, RW (2010) Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery. PNAS. Published online before print, December 6, 2010, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1011841108 

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Natural History Museum London
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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Biodiversity
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