Computerization of Regional herbarium
Monday 26 February 2024
10,000 data from this herbarium could be computerized in 2023, they will soon be shared with the Biodiversity Observatory in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
This herbarium was inventoried using paper files in the 1990s, and its computerization had only been occasional. In 2023, thanks to financial support from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, 10,000 files were entered by a reinforcement person for 6 months. The remaining 4,000 will be gradually added.
These data, like those of other herbaria, will be shared with the Regional Observatory of Biodiversity in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
It was in 1987, following the implementation of a program to renovate the herbaria of the Grenoble Museum, that the creation of a regional herbarium saw the light of day, following a previously established protocol. This reference collection brings together specimens obtained in the departments of Ardèche, Drôme, Haute-Savoie, Hautes-Alpes, Isère and Savoie. To date, different collections constitute it: the herbarium of Maurice Breistroffer, of the Société Dauphinoise, of René Besson and the non-Drôme regional specimens of Constant Chatenier and other specimens recently collected in the region.
In total, the Regional herbarium contains 469 boxes of vascular plants out of around 2000 boxes in the Museum herbarium.
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