Assessing the Fitness-for-use of Herbarium-based Data and its Application in Biodiversity Conservation in Ghana

By Alex Asase, Alfred Oteng Yeboah, Tonny Asafo-Agyei

Wondering how useful a herbarium is to nature? Well, grab how herbarium based data can be applied in assessing the conservation status of regions and countries. Here the Ghanaian herbarium records are used to assess the status of plants in the Aburi botanical garden in the Eastern region of Ghana. It was amazing to find out that, several species of plants collected decades ago from the same garden are no more and new species have taken over. Find out more in this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6200326541
• ISBN13: 9786200326546
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"