Sara Alexander- MS
- Researcher at Smithsonian Institution
Sara Alexander
- MS
- Researcher at Smithsonian Institution
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Introduction
Sara Alexander currently works at the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (itis.gov) as a data development specialist. Sara does research in Databases, Linnaean Taxonomy and Systematics (Taxonomy). She has also worked on the project 'Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield' with the Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution.
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Publications (9)
p>Smithsonian Plant Collections, Guiana Shield: 2002–2012, Karen M. Redden and Kenneth J. Wurdack. Part I provides the collector’s notes on trips with maps by date. Part II lists collection localities, with collection number ranges, habitat descriptions, geographic coordinates, and assisting collectors. Part III lists collections in numerical order...
Part I provides the collector’s notes on trips in alphabetical order by collector (with maps). Part II lists collection localities with collection number ranges, habitat descriptions, geographic coordinates, and assisting collectors. Part III lists collections in numerical order with identification and authors. Part IV lists collections ordered by...
Significance
Large floristic datasets that purportedly represent the diversity and composition of the Amazon tree flora are being widely used to draw conclusions about the patterns and evolution of Amazon plant diversity, but these datasets are fundamentally flawed in both their methodology and the resulting content. We have assembled a comprehensi...
A specimen conserved in the Erbario Patavinum (PAD), Padova, Italy, is designated as the epitype of Hibiscus pentacarpos L. (Malvaceae) in order to avoid any ambiguity in the interpretation of the lectotype previously designated by Alexander et al., (2012: 115, [icon] tab. 91) from Zannichelli’s pre-Linnean Istoria Piante (1735: 155). Kosteletzkya...
Alexander, Sara N., Bruce Hoffman, Carol L. Kelloff, and V. A. Funk. Smithsonian Plant Collections, the
Guianas: 1991–1993 and 1995–2000, Bruce Hoffman. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany, number 101,
viii + 188 pages, 24 fi gures, 4 plates, 14 maps, 2014 Part I provides the collector’s notes on trips with maps
in chronological order. Part II list...
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Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (L.) Ledeb. (syn. = Kosteletzkya virginica (L.) Presl ex A. Gray) has been treated as a single variable species or as a species including four varieties: K. virginica var. althaeifolia, var. aquilonia, var. smilacifolia, and var. virginica. The aim of this study was to test the validity of formally recognizing these putativ...
Demons in Eden The Paradox of Plant . By: Jonathan Silvertown . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 187 pp. $25, £16. ISBN 0-226-75771-4.
The author offers lay readers a short, seemingly up-to-date account of plant diversity patterns and the evolutionary and ecological processes responsible for them.
