[Taxacom] TROPICOS

["Peter A. Schäfer"]

Hello,
where do you get precise GPS coordinates on tropicos?
I get that for distribution:
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Mapping will be based on a standard reference mark based on political
units when available.


Records  1 - 1  of  1 	Page of 1 	
Country 	Upper	Lower	Author	Year	Article Title	Publication	Collation
Brazil	 	 	Robinson, H.	1999	Generic and Subtribal Classification of
American Vernonieae	Smithsonian Contr. Bot.	89: 1--116
Records  1 - 1  of  1 	Page of 1 "

maybe because the species is not known to be threatened ?

Best wishes
Peter A. Schäfer
MPU




Jody Haynes wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> While I agree with its usefulness, I feel that I should point out that 
> TROPICOS makes freely available precise GPS coordinates for many threatened, 
> endangered, and critically endangered species -- including CITES Appendix 1 
> listed species. While this type of information can be extremely useful to 
> researchers studying a particular taxon, from a conservationist perspective 
> I find this type of freely accessible locality information quite troubling, 
> particularly considering that one of the primary threats to the plant group 
> that I study is illicit collection of plants from habitat for black market 
> trade. Comments on this issue from members of this group would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Jody Haynes
> President, The Cycad Society, Inc. (www.cycad.org)
> Secretary, IUCN/SSC Cycad Specialist Group (www.cycadsg.org)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <michael.heads at yahoo.com>
> To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:21 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] (no subject)
> 
> 
> 
> I think TROPICOS is fantastic, I use it all the time. The obvious 
> improvement though would be to have it connected with databases of other big 
> herbaria. This means you need a working list but this shouldn't be 
> publicised as a definitive or official list. The focus shouldn't be on the 
> list but on making the databases (a) available and (b) integrated so that, 
> for example, a single map can be produced including specimens from the 
> different collections (cf. the Australian National Botanic Gardens site).
> 
> Michael Heads
> 
> Wellington, New Zealand.
> 
> My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0
> 
> 
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