Samuel Brockington
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Professor of Evolution | Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden | Co-Director of the Connections-Collections-Communities Strategic Research Initiative
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All three days were epic!
March 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
All three days were epic!
Our colleague Dr Paul Smith, Secretary-General for Botanic Gardens Conservation International has written an important reaction (“A rude awakening”) to the paper here:
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A rude awakening | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Dr. Paul Smith's latest blog "Rather than see this paper as a threat to the reputation of botanic gardens, we need to see it as an opportunity."
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January 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Our colleague Dr Paul Smith, Secretary-General for Botanic Gardens Conservation International has written an important reaction (“A rude awakening”) to the paper here:
www.bgci.org/news-events/...
www.bgci.org/news-events/...
I have posted a digest of the paper and what I think it may mean for the botanic garden community here:
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The World's Living Plant Collections have reached Peak Capacity, Peak Diversity, Peak Wild & Peak Global. So where do we go next?
We have just published an article: Cano et al. (2025) Insights from a century of data reveal global trends in ex situ living plant collections Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-11.
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January 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I have posted a digest of the paper and what I think it may mean for the botanic garden community here:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/worlds...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/worlds...