Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data (Part 2)
Digitising a collection is easy. Deciding who owns the knowledge inside it is the hard part.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data
At Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium, digitisation promised new science, sharper conservation and faster AI. But the hardest questions were about people, power and who benefits.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
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
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.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
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.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
María Susana Sánchez Chávez on EDGE, data and conserving Pinus culminicola on the ground in Mexico
Digital botany can do something extraordinary. It can take records, DNA sequences, phylogenetic trees, threat assessments and maps, and use them to highlight species that need
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Interview with Bob Allkin about Name Games: How to Untangle the Web of Plant Names and Uses?
What name do you go by? Does everyone call you the same name everywhere you go? Probably not, and the same stands for plants. The names
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Unravelling Human-Plant Connections
An Unexpected Use of a Digital Collection
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Hidden Stories in Collections: How Art and Science Come Together after Digitisation
We often think of herbaria as a scientific resource used by researchers to study plant taxonomy, evolution, conservation and climate change, perhaps. But herbarium collections are
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Herbarium Collections Can Offer Exciting New Career Paths Far Beyond Taxonomy: an Interview with Dr. Barnabas Daru
Digital botany is changing what we can ask of old collections. Herbarium specimens, once used mainly for taxonomy and identification, are now helping researchers study evolution,
Digital Botany Focus Issue
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.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Lights, Camera, Action! Behind the lens of Kew’s mass herbarium digitisation project
Anyone with a smartphone probably has a camera roll of images waiting to be sorted through. Now imagine you have millions of images to process, and