What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change?

Date
2009-04
Authors
Cherry, Micheal I.
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AOSIS OpenJournals
Abstract
In 1926—the year of my late mother’s birth—the South African Museum conducted a collecting trip to South West Africa (now Namibia). The participants went by train to Windhoek, where they hired ox wagons, in which they spent three months travelling to the Kunene River and back. The staff walked beside the wagon train each day, collecting specimens as they walked to supplement the museum’s collection. Over eighty years later, is there much that biological collections such as these can tell us about climate change?
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The original publication is available at http://www.sajs.co.za/
Keywords
Museum, Herbarium collections, Climate change
Citation
Cherry, M.I. 2009. What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change. South African Journal of Science, 105, 87-88
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