In order to take into account the difficulties related to the health situation and general containment, the deadline for submitting applications for the 2020 call for projects has been extended until 30 April 2020.
With kind regards,
Les Herbonautes team
A new mission on Les Herbonautes proposes you to discover the collections of the botanical garden of the Villa Thuret!
Explore the diversity of exotic species introduced into the South of France since the mid-19th century! These plants have helped shape the Côte d'Azur, one of the most renowned urban landscapes in the world. Palm trees, eucalyptus, mimosas and other melaleucas ... were the dream of botanists, collectors and lovers of exoticism who introduced them to the south-east of France in "acclimatisation gardens".
The Villa Thuret historical herbarium is a valuable source of information for identifying, dating and characterizing emblematic species introduced into the Alpes-Maritimes. Samples of autochthonous species and samples collected elsewhere than in France are among those we are looking for. Samples collected in the botanical garden or outside testify to their presence on this territory, to the work in progress, to the networks and exchanges of that time. The latter are most often collected by Gustave Thuret (1817-1875), his friend Edouard Bornet (1828-1911) or their successor Charles Naudin (1815-1899). The herbarium data will complete those resulting from the exploitation of unpublished archives in the course of exploration (correspondence, Index seminums, inventories ...).
For more informations : http://herbonautes.mnhn.fr/missions/15971943
Do you have a project? We have millions of data to offer you!
To date, almost 10 million herbarium specimens have been digitized and made disposable by the RECOLNAT research infrastructure. Les Herbonautes platform proposes to transcribe the information contained on the labels of these herbaria in order to constitute data sets for your research work. For more information: https://www.tela-botanica.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/lesherbonautes_callproposals2020.pdf
Since October 2019, Aline Donini has been carrying out a meta-inventory of insect collections preserved by museums and privates in the Pays de la Loire region. This inventory is the first stage of a more ambitious project that will include digitization campaigns aimed at enhancing and making available these entomology collections.
IHMAGES aims to better understand the evolution of biodiversity in the Massif Central by computerizing 100,000 historical data from herbaria. A diachronic analysis of bio-indicator species (habitats of bogs, lawns and subalpine moors in emblematic sites in the Massif Central) will be carried out in order to study the evolution of natural environments in relation to global changes. Following the e-ReColNat digitization program (ANR 11-INBS-0004), images of a large part of the Massifs Central collections are already available in the consultation interfaceEXPLORE. These collections will benefit from computerization campaigns (RECOLNAT and HERBONAUTES tools) in order to complete and make available all this corpus of data for the study of biodiversity in the Massif Central. The resulting data will be compatible and available in the national and international RECOLNAT, SINP, CLF and GBIF databases. The IHMAGES project, which lasts 3 years, is coordinated by the University of Clermont Auvergne in partnership with the RECOLNAT infrastructure, the MNHN, the Museums : Aurillac, Montbrison, le Puy, Mende, Moulins, Autun; and the University of Limoges. For more information, contact gilles.thebaud@uca.fr
