Editorial Reflection: Digital Botany, One Story at a Time
As Botany One’s Digital Botany Focus Issue comes to a close, this reflection looks back at the people, platforms and hidden labour behind the digital biodiversity revolution.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
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The Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and data
From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive.
How Your iNaturalist Photos Feed the Digital Botany Revolution
Every plant photograph you upload to iNaturalist holds an untapped scientific superpower, thanks to PhenoVision. This new framework has processed nearly 40 million iNaturalist images.
Unravelling Human-Plant Connections
An Unexpected Use of a Digital Collection
Three Tools That Bring Digital Botany Within Reach
Millions of herbarium specimens are now only a click away. But how do botanists find the right records, sort the right images and train better AI tools? Three digital botany tools are helping turn online collections into usable knowledge.
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