Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
Pierre C. Sibiry Traore makes an offer:
I’ve been trying to join the ethnologue.com database with detailed shapefiles of dominant linguistic groups of Africa at a fairly detailed level, but lack time/resources to dig in further. If someone, self-funded (PhD student…) is interested in an in-depth investigation I’d be willing to spend some time towards joint publications! Or better, host him/her at SotubaGIS, Bamako, Mali.
Any takers?
I’ve finally been able to obtain the dataset on which UNESCO’s interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is based. 1 In the map below, which you’ll be able to see bigger if you click on it, you can see Chad’s endangered languages (brighter red means more endangered), mashed up with germplasm from Chad listed in Genesys.
Would it be sensible to give particular priority for germplasm collecting to areas where languages are threatened with extinction?
After more than three decades of breed conservation and selection, a livestock research station in southeastern Taiwan has made a name for itself by selling minipigs locally for experimental purposes.
Are these minipigs the same as pocket pigs? Oh, I do hope so.
Again thanks to DAD-Net for more livestock videos. This time from Iceland, which has a local sheep breed called the Leadersheep. No, really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67eiH9jYOtAWe probably don’t give botanic gardens the attention they deserve. So it’s a pleasure to point out that Biodiversity and Conservation has a special issue out on Botanic Gardens in the Age of Climate Change, with a focus on Europe. Lots of interesting stuff in there, including from some old friends.
And since we’re on the subject of published papers, I’d like to say what a good idea it is to include an illustration in the abstract of a paper. I had not come across this before I stumbled on the example here on the left in a recent Scientia Horticulturae paper on Citrus phylogeny.