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The colonial legacy of herbaria |
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| Author: | Park, Daniel S.1,2; Feng, Xiao3; Akiyama, Shinobu4; |
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1Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 2Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 3Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
4Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
5Herbarium Bogoriense, Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Cibinong, Indonesia 6Instituto Experimental Jardin Botánico ‘Dr. Tobías Lasser’, Avenida Salvador Allende, Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas, Venezuela 7Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela 8Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary 9Herbier LY, FR-BioEEnVis, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France 10Instituto de Botánica Darwinion, San Isidro, Argentina 11Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 12Botany Section, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 13Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium 14Herbario San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru 15Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 16Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic 17Central Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad, India 18University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA, USA 19Sikkim Himalayan Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Gangtok, India 20Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 21Botany Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 22Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australian Herbarium, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia 23South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, South Africa 24School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 25Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan 26Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Nichinan, Japan 27Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA 28Institute of Botany, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 29National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, South Korea 30National Parks Board, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Singapore 31Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 32Herbarium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy 33East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya 34Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation 35Herbarium Collections & Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 36Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland 37Rocky Mountain Herbarium, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA 38Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA 39Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Botanische Staatssammlung München, München, Germany 40Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA 41Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, UK 42Herbier Louis-Marie, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada 43University of Florida Herbarium, Florida Museum, Gainesville, FL, USA 44Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina 45Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria 46Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 47Deccan Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Hyderabad, India 48National Herbarium of Ukraine, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 49Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 50Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA 51Conservatory and Botanic Gardens of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 52Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 53New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA 54Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 55Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 56Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 57Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 58University of Oulu Botanical Museum, Oulu, Finland 59Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA 60South China Botanical Garden Herbarium, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China 61Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Herbaria, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | embargoed |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023081495533 |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature,
2023
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| Publish Date: | 2023-12-12 |
| Description: |
AbstractHerbarium collections shape our understanding of Earth’s flora and are crucial for addressing global change issues. Their formation, however, is not free from sociopolitical issues of immediate relevance. Despite increasing efforts addressing issues of representation and colonialism in natural history collections, herbaria have received comparatively less attention. While it has been noted that the majority of plant specimens are housed in the Global North, the extent and magnitude of this disparity have not been quantified. Here we examine the colonial legacy of botanical collections, analysing 85,621,930 specimen records and assessing survey responses from 92 herbarium collections across 39 countries. We find an inverse relationship between where plant diversity exists in nature and where it is housed in herbaria. Such disparities persist across physical and digital realms despite overt colonialism ending over half a century ago. We emphasize the need for acknowledging the colonial history of herbarium collections and implementing a more equitable global paradigm for their collection, curation and use. see all
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| Series: |
Nature human behaviour |
| ISSN: | 2397-3374 |
| ISSN-E: | 2397-3374 |
| ISSN-L: | 2397-3374 |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Pages: | 1059 - 1068 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
118 Biological sciences |
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| Funding: |
This work was supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences (grant no. RVO 67985939 to J.D.) and the Komarov Botanical Institute, RAS (grant no. AAAA-A19-119031290052-1 to D. Melnikov). |
| Dataset Reference: |
The data discussed in the paper are either publicly available through GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/; https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.nt5wkx) or Index Herbariorum (https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The_World_Herbaria_2020_7_Jan_2021.pdf) or are in the Supplementary Information. |
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https://www.gbif.org/ http://dx.doi.org/10.15468/dl.nt5wkx https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The_World_Herbaria_2020_7_Jan_2021.pdf |
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| Copyright information: |
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. |