Johan Reyes Chavez

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Mooney Goes Wild · Kew Report: State Of The World's Plants & Fungi · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Let's say you have your back garden, but you don't really know what's growing on them.

So through this digital revolution, we can actually see what's been collected there for hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

And by doing this in protected areas, we're improving on the amount of information and plant diversity information that managers can use to conserve their natural spaces.

Absolutely.

And one of the important things about this data is that, as you mentioned, before, like let's say 30 years ago, you actually had to go to a herbarium physically.

So imagine if you're a park ranger in an area and you want to know what's been collected there in the past, you actually had to take some days off and get in contact with these herbarium managers and look at them physically.

And it's been incredible to have this data now totally public.

Like, I was just looking at GBIF, which is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

And for Ireland, there's around 6 million different records, which is a lot of information.

So nowadays, park rangers, conservation managers, but just the general public,

can have a better understanding of the history of our countries and how they've been changing and how these species have been collected.

Because there's thousands of people that have been doing these collections for hundreds of years.

And now they're digital.

which is a massive improvement for just doing science.

And we also have to mention that citizens can take pictures and upload them to platforms like iNaturalist, where conservation managers and taxonomic experts can help identify these species and improve on our understanding of, as I mentioned before, what's growing on our back garden.

Totally.

And as you mentioned, herbarium specimens are something physical that we can verify that their identity is correct.

So in collaboration with my supervisors at University College Cork, we asked the question, like, can we use herbarium data on these species that it's easy to detect?

get it incorrectly identified, metal barley, because there's other barley species that are quite similar.

And can we use herbarium data in these specimens to predict the impact of climate change?

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