The colonial legacy of herbaria

Park, Daniel S.; Feng, Xiao; Akiyama, Shinobu; Ardiyani, Marlina; Avendaño, Neida; Barina, Zoltan; Bärtschi, Blandine; Belgrano, Manuel; Betancur, Julio; Bijmoer, Roxali; Bogaerts, Ann; Cano, Asunción; Danihelka, Jiří; Garg, Arti; Giblin, David E.; Gogoi, Rajib; Guggisberg, Alessia; Hyvärinen, Marko; James, Shelley A.; Sebola, Ramagwai J.; Katagiri, Tomoyuki; Kennedy, Jonathan A.; Komil, Tojibaev Sh.; Lee, Byoungyoon; Lee, Serena M. L.; Magri, Donatella; Marcucci, Rossella; Masinde, Siro; Melnikov, Denis; Mráz, Patrik; Mulenko, Wieslaw; Musili, Paul; Mwachala, Geoffrey; Nelson, Burrell E.; Niezgoda, Christine; Novoa Sepúlveda, Carla; Orli, Sylvia; Paton, Alan; Payette, Serge; Perkins, Kent D.; Ponce, Maria Jimena; Rainer, Heimo; Rasingam, L.; Rustiami, Himmah; Shiyan, Natalia M.; Bjorå, Charlotte Sletten; Solomon, James; Stauffer, Fred; Sumadijaya, Alex; Thiébaut, Mélanie; Thiers, Barbara M.; Tsubota, Hiromi; Vaughan, Alison; Virtanen, Risto; Whitfeld, Timothy J. S.; Zhang, Dianxiang; Zuloaga, Fernando O.; Davis, Charles C.

doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7

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“…Our results show that ethnobiology still faces challenges to overcome systemic biases inherited from colonialism as the majority of articles are written by authors from the economic Global North, with Central and North America as the main regions of study (Fig.1, Table2). Similar observations have been made in sustainability science(Dangles et al 2022) and botany(Park et al 2023). Formal research collaborations with IPLCs and local actors are still limited (Table2, although they agree to share their knowledge) and remain most important in data collection, while collaborations for project or study coconstruction are rare (just over 5% of the articles).…”

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WITHDRAWN: A new perspective on the SDGs nexus: ethnobiology’s contribution

Arrivabene,

Lasic,

Blanco

et al. 2023

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Progress achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is insufficient at global scale. A thorough understanding of SDG synergies and trade-offs is needed to enhance their achievement, but such understanding is still limited. Ethnobiology has been proposed as a discipline able to contribute to sustainability and finely-tuned to study these interlinkages. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of all articles published by the Journal of Ethnobiology since 2015 (SDGs’ adoption year) and evaluated if and how they address one or more SDGs. We asked the following questions: 1) Do articles mention explicitly or implicitly the SDGs? 2) What connections does ethnobiology establish between them? 3) How do articles define sustainability? And, (4) whether articles dealing with sustainability are more inclusive to non-academics. Our study shows that ethnobiology implicitly addresses almost all SDGs and focuses particularly on the connectedness of SDGs 1–3 and 15. Biodiversity’s understanding (SDG 15) provides the basis for culture and Indigenous and local knowledge and ensures communities’ food security (SDG 2), health and well-being (SDG 3), and prosperity (SDG 1). We observe that ethnobiology studies sustainability in paradigm ethics of Indigenous peoples and local communities rather than that of the global sustainability agenda, but that local actors are still not commonly engaged in knowledge co-construction processes. While ethnobiology can provide an analysis of the SDGs complimentary to that of sustainability science and be a motor of transformative change, this potential is not fully realized because of a persisting decoupling between place-based research and global sustainability frameworks.

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WITHDRAWN: A new perspective on the SDGs nexus: ethnobiology’s contribution

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“…However, ‘gaps’ in dominant knowledge frameworks often indicate failures to appreciate other forms of expertise, such as Indigenous sciences (Liboiron, 2021). Further, scientific resources often reflect colonial power relations, such as global plant specimens overwhelmingly located in colonial collections and not local herbariums (Park et al, 2023). Moreover, ‘gaps’ are not neutral.…”

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Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene

Schmidt

2023

Glob. Sustain.

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Non-technical summary This article uses water to examine how the relationships of ethics to science are modified through the pursuit of Earth stewardship. Earth stewardship is often defined as the use of science to actively shape social–ecological relations by enhancing resilience. The changing relations of science to values are explored by considering how ideas of resilience operate to translate different ways of knowing water into the framework of Earth stewardship. This is not a neutral process, and Earth stewardship requires careful appraisal to ensure other ways of knowing water are not oppressed. Technical summary Scientific disclosures of anthropogenic impacts on the Earth system – the Anthropocene – increasingly come with ethical diagnoses for value transformation and, often, Earth stewardship. This article examines the changing relationship of science to values in calls for Earth stewardship with special attention to water resilience. The article begins by situating recent efforts to reconceptualize human–water relations in view of anthropogenic impacts on the global water system. It then traces some of the ways that Earth stewardship has been articulated, especially as a framework supporting the use of science to actively shape social–ecological relations by enhancing resilience. The shift in relations of ethics and science entailed by Earth stewardship is placed in historical context before the issues of water resilience are examined. Resilience, and critiques of it, are then discussed for how they operate to translate different ways of knowing water into the framework of Earth stewardship. The ethical stakes of such translations are a core concern of the conclusion. Rather than reducing different ways of knowing water to those amendable to the framework of Earth stewardship, the article advances a pluralized approach as needed to respect multiple practices for knowing and relating to water – and resilience. Social media summary Water resilience is key to Earth stewardship; Jeremy Schmidt examines how it changes relations of science and ethics.

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“…Herbaria, or plant collections, are key resources of trait variation for a wide range and diversity of species over both time and geographic space (Moeller et al, 2007;Moloney et al, 2009;Menne et al, 2012;Gutaker et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2018;Borges et al, 2020;de Villemereuil et al, 2016;Sang-Hun, 2022). Herbarium collections span the U.S. civil war era to post-pandemic America (James et al, 2018;Lavoie, 2013;Park et al, 2023). Specimens in herbarium collections, which can include whole pressed plants, seeds, fruits, and much more, are a snapshot of the world at the time of collection (de Villemereuil et al, 2022;Willis et al, 2017;Heberling et al, 2019;James et al, 2018).…”

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Herbarium specimens reveal links betweenCapsella bursa-pastorisleaf shape and climate

Hightower,

Chitwood,

Josephs

2024

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Studies into the evolution and development of leaf shape have connected variation in plant form, function, and fitness. For species with consistent leaf margin features, patterns in leaf architecture are related to both biotic and abiotic factors. However, for species with inconsistent leaf margin features, quantifying leaf shape variation and the effects of environmental factors on leaf shape has proven challenging. To investigate leaf shape variation in species with inconsistent shapes, we analyzed approximately 500 digitized Capsella bursa-pastoris specimens collected throughout the continental U.S. over a 100-year period with geometric morphometric modeling and deterministic techniques. We generated a morphospace of C. bursa-pastoris leaf shapes and modeled leaf shape as a function of environment and time. Our results suggest C. bursa-pastoris leaf shape variation is strongly associated with temperature over the C. bursa-pastoris growing season, with lobing decreasing as temperature increases. While we expected to see changes in variation over time, our results show that the level of leaf shape variation is consistent over the 100-year period. Our findings showed that species with inconsistent leaf shape variation can be quantified using geometric morphometric modeling techniques and that temperature is the main environmental factor influencing leaf shape variation.

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The colonial legacy of herbaria

Cited by 30 publications

References 42 publications

WITHDRAWN: A new perspective on the SDGs nexus: ethnobiology’s contribution

WITHDRAWN: A new perspective on the SDGs nexus: ethnobiology’s contribution

Earth stewardship, water resilience, and ethics in the Anthropocene

Herbarium specimens reveal links betweenCapsella bursa-pastorisleaf shape and climate

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