Publications by authors named "Heather Lindon"
Article Synopsis
- A multidisciplinary group formed through social media seeks to emphasize women's contributions to science, particularly in botany, addressing the lack of data on this topic.
- They developed a dynamic dataset that connects flowering plant genera named after women with information about those women, utilizing Wikidata for broad sharing and enrichment of the dataset.
- Their innovative approach promotes open participation in research and lays a foundation for similar projects that celebrate marginalized groups in science.
Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis for all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to all other groups of organisms including humans. Decline in plant diversity has been hard to quantify, due to the huge numbers of known and yet to be discovered species and the lack of an adequate baseline assessment of extinction risk against which to track changes. The biodiversity of many remote parts of the world remains poorly known, and the rate of new assessments of extinction risk for individual plant species approximates the rate at which new plant species are described.
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