Research Dataset
Australasian Virtual Herbarium (c. 2001 - )
- From
- c. 2001
- Functions
- Collection Management, Herbarium and Taxonomic botany
- Alternative Names
- Australia's Virtual Herbarium (Former name)
- AVH (Acronym)
- Website
- https://avh.chah.org.au/about
Summary
The Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) is a dynamic online resource that provides access to the wealth of plant specimen data held by Australian and New Zealand herbaria. It was formed with the amalgamation of Australia's Virtual Herbarium and the New Zealand Virtual Herbarium. An initiative of the Council of the Heads of Australian Herbaria, AVL was mooted in 2001, although it was not officially launched until several years later. Specimen information from each contributing herbarium (including current identification, collection details, habitat and associated species) is available to any organisation or individual to support projects on species distribution, vegetation mapping, revegetation and conservation planning, bioprospecting, invasive species, and history. AVH is part of the Atlas of Living Australia.
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Entwisle, Timothy J. and Weston, Peter H., 'Majority rules, when systematists disagree', Australian Systematic Botany, 18 (1) (2005), 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1071/SB04013. Details
Resources
- 'Australia's Virtual Herbarium (AVH) (2009-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1491612. Details
Christine Moje and Helen Cohn
Created: 3 July 2012, Last modified: 18 March 2025
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