Abstract This article examines ecological practices at the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem, West Bank. Through an analysis museum's botanical gardens, explores what it calls ‘biodiverse futures’ as a spatio‐temporal alternative to domination settler colonialism Israel/Palestine. While much scholarship has focused on environmental imaginaries that have informed colonial conquest...

MAARTEN J.M. CHRISTENHUSZ, WILLIAM BAKER, MARK W. CHASE, MICHAEL F. FAY, SAMULI LEHTONEN, BEN VAN EE, MATT VON KONRAT, THORSTEN LUMBSCH, KAREN S. RENZAGLIA, JON SHAW, DAVID M. WILLIAMS & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG Botanical Garden and Herbarium, Finnish Museum of Natural History, PL 7 (Unioninkatu 44), 00014, University of Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: [email protected] Royal Botanic Gardens, ...

Exotic species have often been introduced into a new country in zoological or botanical gardens or on game and fur farms. When accidentally or deliberately released, these alien species can become invasive and have negative impacts on native plant and animal communities and human activities. This article focuses on a selection of such invasive species: principally the American mink (Neovison vi...

Species of Encephalartos, commonly known as bread trees, bread palms or cycads are native to Africa; the genus encompasses more than 60 species and represents an important component of the indigenous African flora. Recently, a leaf blight disease was noted on several E. altensteinii plants growing at the foot of Table Mountain in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens of South Africa. Preliminary i...

Botanical insecticides presently play only a minor role in insect pest management and crop protection; increasingly stringent regulatory requirements in many jurisdictions have prevented all but a handful of botanical products from reaching the marketplace in North America and Europe in the past 20 years. Nonetheless, the regulatory environment and public health needs are creating opportunities...

1 Species 2000, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, 2333 CR, Th e Netherlands 2 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 3 Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, USA (address for correspondence: Botany Department, Th e Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chi...

This paper describes an experience in the construction of knowledge models, conducted at the Public University of Navarra (Spain), during the 2006/07 academic year, with 120 student teachers. The subject area was Knowledge of the Natural, Social and Cultural Environment and the objective was to create knowledge models based on the characteristics of the different areas of the Botanical Gardens ...

To explore the biosystematics of the Calligonum mongolicum complex (Polygonaceae), the flowering phenological period, breeding and pollination characters and seed set of the complex (Calligonum Mongolicum Turze, Calligonum chinense A. Los., Calligonum gobicum A. Los., Calligonum pumilum A. Los. and Calligonum zaidamense A. Los.) were documented in the Turpan Eremophyte Botanical Garden, China. ...

ABSTRACT: The study examined twenty plants of medicinal value in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State. The study was carried out through fieldwork, specimen collection, preservation and botanical identification of plant specimens by a curator. Information on the constituents, use and preparation of the plants was got from oral interview of some traditional herbal practitioners as well as ...