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Mapping Coffee in Ethiopia part two

by: Paul Little, GIS team blog
08 May 2013
Kew photographer Paul Little has just returned from accompanying a field trip to the Highlands of Ethiopia to research the impact of climate change on the vital coffee crop. Read part two of his diary of the trip.

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Germination of alpines

22 Mar 2013

Climate change could shift the timing of seed germination in alpine plants

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Seed collecting in Mediterranean islands

21 Feb 2013

A new initiative aims to ensure the survival of 900 plant species in six Mediterranean islands.

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Interactive Indigofera identification

01 Nov 2012

A mobile application is being developed to identify species of Indigofera in the field in Southern Africa.

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Harapan memories and take-away thoughts

by: Jenny Williams & Marie Briggs, GIS team blog
20 Aug 2012
Kew staff reminisce on time well spent in the Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra, with a summary of their GIS field mapping, personal accounts and photographs.

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Launching a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

by: Colin Clubbe, UK Overseas Territories team blog
09 Jul 2012
A major outcome of a one-week plant conservation workshop hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, is the establishment of a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands. The overall goal of the Task Force is to protect and sustain the native plant diversity of the Puerto Rican Bank.

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Mapping the Harapan Rainforest - how we did it

by: Jenny Williams, GIS team blog
24 May 2012
Find out how Kew's GIS unit used remote sensing and field work to produce vegetation maps for the Harapan Rainforest Project.

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Collecting and cataloguing pine samples in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Pine pests on the Turks and Caicos Islands

15 May 2012

Scientists are studying the insects causing the decline of the Caribbean pine on Turks and Caicos and searching for chemical markers for unhealthy trees.

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From the field - fly-camping in the Harapan Rainforest, Sumatra

by: Jenny Williams, GIS team blog
10 Feb 2012
Kew's GIS and South East Asia team report from their study sites deep in the forests of Sumatra. In this - their second post - they venture into the jungle, seeing all sorts of things on the way.