Review in “Land for WildLife” by Stephanie Reif https://www.lfwseq.org.au/rainforest-plants-of-australia/ This review of the latest app version of Rainforest Plants of Australia – from Victoria to Rockhampton (authored by Gwen Harden, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams) – notes that the app version follows on from the USB version and the…
Identifying Eucalypts made easy https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections/ANH/Supporting-conservation/Identifying-eucalypts-made-easy This recent online article describes the history since 1997of a CSIRO project to develop EUCLID, an interactive Lucid key for identifying eucalypt species. Using the Australian National Herbarium’s collection of 65,000 eucalypt specimens, the first EUCLID key developed by the project team was a CD product, covering Eucalyptus species in…
International presentations In November, Geoff Norton gave keynote presentations in Hyderabad, India (at the 19th International Plant Protection Congress) and in Ningbo, China (at a Symposium to mark the establishment of a new national institution involving Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Ningbo University). The two presentations reviewed the development and application of various digital…