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Subject:        GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:51:13 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To:     'A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship'
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Although others may be aware of it, perhaps on other discussion lists
during this present International Year of Biodiversity, I have been
remiss in mentioning the following article –

‘All mapped out’, by Christopher Stocks, in /Kew// magazine/ (Kew,
Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, ISSN 0961-4141), Spring 2010, *68*,
22-27 : col. ill.

The intro begins: “Christopher Stocks [‘a freelance journalist and
author of /Forgotten Fruits/ (Random House)’] meets Kew’s GIS team, who
create an amazing array of high-tech maps, full of comparative
information, to help Kew’s botanists locate and conserve endangered
plants around the world[.]”

Special attention is given to Madagascar and a ‘prediction map of
/Dypsis decipiens/ [bottle palm] . . . based on the plant’s ecological
preferences’

FH (London, England)