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The price of collecting life

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Overcoming the challenges involved in computerizing herbarium specimens.

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Figure 1: Total number of specimens housed in participating herbaria, as well as the number of specimens computerized by May 2002.

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SABONET thanks GEF-UNDP for funding the computerization process of the participating southern African herbaria. The authors also thank H. Snyman (National Botanical Institute) and A. Weitzman (Smithsonian Institution) for their help.

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    Gideon F. Smith, Yolande Steenkamp, Ronell R. Klopper & Trevor H. Arnold

  2. the SABONET Regional Office, Private Bag X101, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa

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