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Botanical Biodiversity Research at FSU

By RGault

Assisted by an NSF grant, FSU is leading a project to create high-resolution images of 100,000 plant specimens in the Deep South Plant Specimen Imaging Project.  The East Gulf Coastal Plain, stretching from west of Gainesville to New Orleans and about 175 miles inland is considered a U.S. hotspot for biodiversity and species endangerment.  The new project will produce images similar to those already online from the Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium at FSU.  Once created, the images will be deposited in the FSU-based MorphBank, a gigantic repository of searchable images of plants and animals with annotations by expert biologists.

Robin Gault

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on May 07, 2007 (boomark / email).