With the publication of this volume of Circumpolar Studies, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen and the contributors would like to honour Ko de Korte.
This atlas, which - like the other atlasses in the series - is published as a book plus a website, presents the plant parts that have an economic value and are offered for sale at markets and in shops. They include plants that are used as food, spices, stimulants, medicines, poisons, offerings, dyes, tannins, building materials and ground coverings.
Auteur: R.T.J. Cappers, R.M. Bekker and J.E.A. Jans
ISBN-10: 9077922113
ISBN-13: 9789077922118
Jaar van publicatie: 2006
De Digitale Zadenatlas van Nederland bestaat uit een boek en een website. Deze atlas bevat ruim 4000 kleurenfoto's en vertegenwoordigt 1828 taxa, en omvat de wilde planten, de adventiefplanten en de verwilderde cultuurplanten. De zadenatlas geeft een uniek beeld van de variatie en de kenmerken van zaden en vruchten van de Nederlandse flora.
The continent of Africa has played an important and independent role in the history of plant exploitation. ... [This] book covers a wide range of countries and includes Namibia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Canary Isles, Libya and Egypt.
This biography describes the lives of Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Conrad van Hasselt, their considerable accomplishments in Europe and the Dutch East Indies, and their place in the scientific community at the time, especially in zoological systematics. The results of their systematic studies are shown to be still relevant to present-day science.
Auteur: Nienke Boschman and Louwrens Hacquebord (eds)
ISBN-10: 9080739073
ISSN: 1574-0374
Jaar van publicatie: 2004
With the publication of this special issue of Circumpolar Journal, the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen would like to honour Piet Oosterveld as the driving force behind biological research on Edgeøya, Spitsbergen. He invested large amounts of time and energy in this research and he was an inspiration for many students.