eMonocot
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Type of site | Botanical resource |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | |
| URL | e-monocot |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2010 |
eMonocot was a collaborative global, online, biodiversity information resource provided by a number of botanical organisations to create a database on Monocotyledons (20% of all flowering plants)[1].
History
Participating institutions, all in England, included the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, the University of Oxford, the Natural History Museum and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The project was led by Kew[2] with a £1 million grant by the NERC.[3]
Funding of the project, which included information on over 250,000 taxa, was provided through NERC. Taxonomists from around the world contributed data, although the backbone of the resource was the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Data was imported and compiled from a large number of international databases and resources.[4] By 2017, 70,000 monocotyledons were collected in the database.[2] In 2017, Plants of the World Online superseded eMonocot, which built on the project's work.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ Seddon, Dan. "Developing Tools for Mapping & Identification of Monocotyledons (eMonocot)". Biodiversity Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
- 1 2 "eMonocot – a web taxonomic resource for plants of new scale and depth | Kew News". www.kew.org. Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
- ↑ "Science Review of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (PDF). Independent Review Panel Report. February 2012. Retrieved 2026-06-29.
- ↑ "eMonocot portal launched. Kew News 2010". Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ↑ Crowe, James; Sims, Isabelle; Turner, Robert; Borg, Daniel; Iacona, John (11 April 2017). "POWO puts botanical knowledge online".
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