What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change?
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2009-04
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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/
CITATION: Cherry, M. 2009. What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change? South African Journal of Science, 105(3/4). Retrieved from https://sajs.co.za/article/view/10317.
CITATION: Cherry, M. 2009. What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change? South African Journal of Science, 105(3/4). Retrieved from https://sajs.co.za/article/view/10317.
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Museums
Citation
Cherry, M.I. 2009. What can museum and herbarium collections tell us about climate change. South African Journal of Science, 105, 87-88