- You saw it in Brainfood first, but now you can read a whole post about that paper linking tree species diversity with ecosystem services in ConservationBytes.
- Natural England launches an app competition. Me, I’d like to see this in an app (cf Australia). Mainly because I remember the days when we had to make such species distribution maps by hand.
- WCMC already has plenty of apps, it seems. As does CABI.
- Aquatic genetic resources getting catalogued, as a prelude to improved. Maybe they need apps?
- RBGE staff have more than an app for capturing data from herbarium sheets. They have a poster.
- Bet these Smithsonian guys had neither.
- Nor did they have Facebook pages, but the iCONic project does. And I’m sure it will help with protecting those iconic conifers. Geddit?
- CIMMYT replies to my query about where those Turkish landraces are going to be conserved. And ACIAR to my query about Timor Leste. What did we do before Twitter?
- We would never have got Ghana interested in improved cowpea varieties from Burkina Faso quite so fast before Twitter is my guess. And if the links to the tweets behind these three stories expire, you’ll be pleased to know I’ve storified them. And then had to unsatisfactorily export them to PDF when that website died.
- And Eurisco gets an RSS feed to go with that email newsletter!
There’s the National Biodiversity Network (http://www.nbn.org.uk/), which has UK species distribution maps, the data of which has been integrated into various web services and apps.
Thanks! Which apps?
About CIMMYT and the Turkish landraces: CIMMYT says: “However, since #Turkey is a signatory to global PGR agreemen[t], they’ll be available to outside upon request.”
The assumption seems to be that countries accepting the FAO Seed Treaty will make national samples available. I am not sure that this is a reasonable assumption. The evidence is that most samples now available internationally come from either the CGIAR (as ever – pat on the back) or from developed countries, notably the USA (as ever – also pat on the back) and not from other sources. Unless Turkey is specifically paid for these samples, why should it distribute them? The same goes for Brazil, India, Ethiopia and many more. Indeed, there is some evidence that countries not part of the FAO Seed Treaty are being paid specifically to make samples available: for example Mexico for Phaseolus beans and Russia for VIR samples. So it can pay not to be a member of the FAO Treaty. I am sure that was not the intention.
Dear Dr. Luigi
Thanks , for Natural England launches an app competition.
Me, I’d like to make such species distribution and new
maps this in an app Wild wheat Mainly because change platform form the past and there is new locations In-situ.
Our earth have new thing each year.