Neus NualartInstitut Botànic de Barcelona · Herbari BC
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Glyptostrobus pensilis (Cupressaceae) is the only surviving species of the genus Glyptostrobus . Although the species is widely cultivated throughout China, in the wild it only occurs as small stands in southeastern China, central Laos, and southern Vietnam. However, its low genetic variability, lack of recruitment, and the progressive destruction...
Centaurea subsection Phalolepis has been thoroughly analyzed in previous studies using microsatellites in four centers of speciation: Anatolia, Greece, the Italian Peninsula and the Iberian Peninsula. Evidence suggests a correlation between taxon diversity and mountains. This group constituted a good case study for examining the mountain–geobiodive...
Étienne Marcellin Granier-Blanc (1861–1937), conocido como Frère Sennen, fue un botánico analítico y jesuita francés que durante su actividad científica recolectó más de 100.000 pliegos, centrando los esfuerzos de muestreo en Francia, la península Ibérica y el norte de África. Este trabajo se centra en el estudio taxonómico y nomenclatural de las 7...
La ciencia ciudadana está en plena expansión gracias a la disponibilidad de sencillas y potentes herramientas como las apps de los móviles. Presentamos dos proyectos creados en iNaturalist para el registro de plantas de montaña: “FLORAPYR” para la flora pirenaica, y “FLORAMON: Flora de los Parques Nacionales de Montaña” para los 6 parques españoles...
Identifying and protecting refugia is a priority for conservation management under projected anthropogenic climate change. We have two main objectives: the first is to explore the spatial (East Asia) and temporal (Last Glacial Maximum to year 2070) distribution patterns of dominant Castanopsis species of evergreen broad-leaved forests, also the rel...
The genus Kalanchoe, mostly indigenous from Madagascar and Tropical Africa, is widely traded for ornamental value. In this study, we provided an updated list of wild and cultivated Kalanchoe taxa in Ecuador; we analyzed the temporal–spatial pattern of their records, and we categorized the invasion status for each taxon and its environment preferenc...
Font Quer (Lérida 1888 – Barcelona 1964), was an illustrious Catalan botanist who carried out important research on the flora of northern Morocco, which at the beginning of the 20th century was scarcely studied. He organized self-financed collection campaigns called Iter Maroccanum carried out between 1927 and 1932, where he registered more than 2,...
The BC herbarium houses the second largest botanical collection of plants in Spain including about 800,000 specimens and 10,000 types. It also conserves one of the most important collections of North African vascular plants, particularly from the Maghreb floristic area (i.e. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).
The North African plants collection started...
Climate changes are top biodiversity shapers, both during the past and future. Mapping the most climatic stable and unstable zones on Earth could improve our understanding of biodiversity distribution and evolution. Here, we present a set of maps based on a global scale, high resolution (ca. 5 km) new Climate Stability Index (CSI). The CSI consider...
Los métodos de recolección y prensado de plantas para estudio han variado poco en los últimos siglos. Sin embargo, el uso que se le ha dado al material vegetal de los herbarios, así como a la información asociada al pliego, se ha incrementado mucho dando lugar a distintas aplicaciones en ecología, genética o filogeografía entre otros temas (Nualart...
Con objeto de fomentar el interés por la botánica, surgió la idea de organizar el I Biomaratón de Flora Española: un evento de ciencia
ciudadana en el que personas de todo el país salieron a fotografiar el mayor número posible de plantas. Se realizó utilizando la plataforma
de ciencia ciudadana iNaturalist, y se vertebró por medio de coordinadores...
Desde trabajos clásicos de herbario como el intercambio de material entre instituciones hasta los punteros estudios filogeográficos o de conservación de especies, el uso del materialde herbario está más vivo que nunca.
Carlos Pau was one of the first Spanish botanists interested in the flora of northern Morocco. He proposed 421 taxa for this area, including some illegitimate names and nomina nuda. A complete and annotated catalogue of names by Pau for Moroccan taxa is presented here. For all of them, the typification and synonymy have been evaluated. For 63 taxa...
Pio Font Quer (Lérida 1888 – Barcelona 1964), fue un ilustre botánico, farmacéutico, químico, militar, divulgador científico y autor de más de 250 publicaciones botánicas. Llevó a cabo una importante investigación sobre la flora del norte de Marruecos, que a principios del siglo XX estaba escasamente estudiada. Para ello, organizó campañas de recol...
Pio Font Quer (Lérida 1888 – Barcelona 1964), fue un ilustre botánico, farmacéutico, químico, militar, divulgador científico y autor de más de 250 publicaciones botánicas. Llevó a cabo una importante investigación sobre la flora del norte de Marruecos, que a principios del siglo XX estaba escasamente estudiada. Para ello, organizó campañas de recol...
La subcolección de plantas norteafricanas depositada en el herbario BC, es una de las más importantes del área del Magreb e incluye especímenes de Marruecos, Túnez y Argelia. Sus datos son científicamente significativos, ya que ofrecen una importante cobertura de esta zona florística, considerada un punto caliente de biodiversidad.
Su núcleo se con...
The names in Amaranthus described by Frère Sennen from Spain were studied and, when necessary, typified. Seventeen lectotypes, preserved in BC and MA herbaria, have been designated. Isolectotypes were traced at BCN, herb. Sennen II, JE, JBAG (herb. Laínz), K, MA, P, and PH.
Petrocoptis montsicciana and P. pardoi are two Iberian endemic taxa of Caryophyllaceae family with an unclear taxonomic delimitation, being variously treated as independent species, subspecies or even synonyms. In the present study, allozyme raw data obtained in the early 2000s have been reused with improved tools to survey genetic structure, and c...
Invasive alien species are currently considered one of the main threats to global biodiversity. One of the most rapidly expanding invasive plants in recent times is Kalanchoe × houghtonii (Crassulaceae), an artificial hybrid created in the 1930s in the United States by experimental crossings between K. daigremontiana and K. tubiflora, two species e...
Challenges in the collection of vouchers, either because of the physical properties of the material (species difficult to collect or to press, e.g., palms, cycads, toxic plants, and cacti) or because drying may have a negative effect on taxonomic characters (e.g., colour), recommend the use of photographs to complement herbarium specimens. In a ser...
One of the topics currently under discussion in biological invasions is whether the species’ climatic niche has been conserved or, alternatively, has diverged during invasions. Here, we explore niche dynamic processes using the complex invasion history model of Lilium lancifolium, which is the first tested case of a native species (Korea) with two...
We provide the first records of five non-native vascular plants for Europe—Commelina erecta, Cylindropuntia fulgida, Dasylirion serratifolium, xGraptosedum and Senecio crassissimus, two for the Iberian Peninsula—Lobelia laxiflora subsp. angustifolia and Pennisetum flaccidum, and four for Catalonia— Dimorphotheca fruticosa, xGasteraloe beguinii, Opu...
Aportamos nuevos datos de ocho plantas alóctonas en Cataluña: Aeonium arboreum Webb & Berthel., A. haworthii Webb & Berthel., Cotyledon orbiculata L., Crassula multicava Lem., C. ovata (Mill.) Druce, Graptopetalum paraguayense (N. E. Br.) E. Walther, Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Britton & Rose y Petunia hybrida hort. ex E. Vilm. ABSTRACT: We provide n...
Resum Presentem cites de 34 plantes aŀlòctones trobades a Catalunya i al País Valencià fruit principalment del treball de camp dut a terme en aquests territoris. Com a novetats, en citem dues per a Europa-Agave albomarginata i Euryops chrysanthemoides × E. pectinatus-, cinc per a la península Ibèrica-Opuntia chlorotica, Ptelea trifoliata, Rosa mult...
As part of a taxonomic study in Gnaphalieae and other Compositae, 45 new lectotypes, 1 epitype and 3 neotypes are designated for names in Phagnalon, Conyza and Pluchea. Typifications are discussed, together with taxonomic notes on these taxa and references to previous lectotypifications. The accepted names for which we propose lectotypifications ar...
The vascular plant names proposed by Carlos Pau from Morocco between 1908 and 1922 were studied and, when necessary and possible, typified. Nine lectotypes for Pau names plus one for a synonym have been designated; most of them preserved in MA and BC herbaria (isolectotypes at BCN, G, LD, and P).
Herbarium collections constitute permanent and often well-documented records of the distribution of taxa through space and time. Since their creation, their uses have dramatically expanded and with many new uses being proposed, including some for which herbaria were not initially intended for. In this paper we assess the
potential of these collecti...
Ethnobotany takes into account past uses to be projected into the present and future. Most current ethnobotanical research is focused, especially in industrialised countries, on obtaining information of plant uses from elderly people. Historical ethnobotany is less cultivated, although papers have demonstrated its interest. Particularly poor, but p...
This data paper describes a specimens' dataset of the Catalonian threatened vascular plants conserved in five public Catalonian herbaria (BC, BCN, HGI, HBIL and MTTE). Catalonia is an administrative region of Spain that includes large autochthon plants diversity and 199 taxa with IUCN threatened categories (EX, EW, RE, CR, EN and VU). This dataset...
En el marco de un estudio nomenclatural en el
que participan investigadores del Instituto
Botánico de Barcelona (IBB) y de la Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona, personal del herbario BC
del IBB realizó una visita al herbario Sennen del
colegio La Salle Bonanova.
The Mexican endemic Agave difformis A. Berger (Agavaceae) is reported for the first time out of its native range. A small population composed of two groups separated by 50 m has been located near the city of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). A census of the population has been carried out (a total of 139 rosettes were counted, of which 46 were regarded...
Increasing access to scientific results and knowledge transfer are considered today as important as scientific activity itself, and active policies are necessary for their improvement. Science communication has usually two dimensions: (1) with scientific colleagues through scientific papers or congresses and (2) with non-science community like prac...
La Semana de la Ciencia es un evento internacional que se celebra para acercar la ciencia a la sociedad. La edición catalana de este año ha llegado a la veintena edición y se ha celebrado del 14 al 22 de noviembre. El Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (IBB) ha querido estar presente con diferentes actividades organizadas durante el fin de semana del...
Las campañas de recol·lección de la Asociación de Herbarios Ibero-Macaronésicos (AHIM) se llevan a cabo desde 1994 con el objetivo de herborizar en zonas de interés del territorio español o portugués
para enriquecer las colecciones botánicas.
El área visitada es bastante diversa, con una zona norte más húmeda con cumbres de más de 1.000 metros, do...
The project BioBlitz Barcelona is held once a year. From 2010 up to now the BioBlitz BCN has assembled experts and citizens in order to survey the biodiversity in several areas of the city of Barcelona, mainly in urban parks. At the beginning the Natural History Museum of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona have coordinated the tasks. At the...
El BioBlitzBCN 2015 correspon a la sisena edició d'aquest esdeveniment a Barcelona. L’objectiu dels Bioblitz és portar a terme un inventari de la biodiversitat d’una zona urbana amb la participació de la ciutadania. Enguany, la zona a prospectar ha estat la muntanya de Montjuïc i l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB) n’ha estat l’amfitrió.Durant aq...
La difusión de los resultados de los estudios científicos
y la transferencia de conocimiento se consideran hoy
en día aspectos tan importantes como la misma actividad
investigadora y se necesita promoverlos activamente.
Como parte de esta estrategia, desde el año pasado el
Instituto Botánico de Barcelona (IBB) viene incrementando
su visibilidad ant...
L’herbari de l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona (BC) és, pel seu volum, la col·lecció de plantes més important de Catalunya i la segona d’Espanya i és representatiu de la flora de la regió mediterrània occidental. Inclou, a banda de la col·lecció general, altres col·leccions històriques (des del segle XVII fins a principis del XX). Els objectius princ...
L’herbari de l’Institut Botànic de Barcelona (BC) és la col·lecció de plantes més important de Catalunya i la segona d’Espanya. Està especialitzat en la flora de la regió mediterrània occidental, bàsicament de Catalunya, la resta de la Península Ibèrica, les Illes Balears i els països del Magreb. Inclou, a banda de la col·lecció general, altres col...
El Instituto Botánico de Barcelona fue fundado en 1935 por Font Quer (1888-1964) y es un Centro Mixto del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) y el Instituto de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (ICUB). Es el segundo centro botánico de España y está especializado en la flora de la región mediterránea occidental. Conserva la co...
Se analiza el área de distribución del taxón Cheirolophus intybaceus
INTERESTING FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE GRAN TORRENT OF ABRERA (BAIX LLOBREGAT, CATALONIA). The
Gran Torrent of Abrera is a tributary of the Llobregat River. The torrent is 5 km long and flows
through Abrera, in the Catalan Prelitoral Depression. Even though it is located in a markedly
Mediterranean area and has suffered considerable human impact,...
The weedy flora of the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat
This paper shows a study of the weedy flora in the Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat (Barcelona)
carried out between autumn 2003 and summer 2004. The floristic list obtained consists of 137
species. Finally, the biological form and the biogeographical origin of the observed taxa are
analysed, and t...
Statistical methods are used widely to model the potential distribution of a specie from environmental variables. This study explores the use of the logistic regression in 6 Pyrenean forest species (3 of pinewoods and 3 of beechwoods) for obtaining potential maps in Catalonia and identifying their ecological requirements. This method is also used t...
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Projects (2)
This project revolves around the aim of the MCNB and IBB collection departments to digitalize its collections and make them freely available online. Our main goal is to improve awareness of our collections via projects that include a description of all our collections, the creation of new collections, improving the accessibility of databases, and the publication of images.
Our goal is to study the medium and long-term effects of certain environmental factors on the specimens in our collections and on their storage materials as a means of finding ways of mitigating possible damage.
We also aim to study the medium and long-term effects of the materials and techniques we use for remedial conservation, as well as the impact that storage materials and facilities and sustainable conservation may have on our natural sciences collections.
