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Sarah Boon interviews Canadian botanist Erin Zimmerman, author of Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science.

Ice cores, seeds, and plants all contain vital clues that will be lost without nature archivists whose work is harder than ever.

Armed with new technology, botanists are proposing what was once thought impossible: reviving long-lost plant species by using seeds from dried specimens in collections. The challenges remain daunting, but researchers are now searching for the best de-extinction candidates.

biab036) the necessary steps for the biodiversity collections community to vouchsafe its position as an important catalyst of research. The authors draw on recommendations from recent reports by the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), arguing that an implementation plan for the previously described Extended Specimen Network (ESN) is a logical next step for the community. According to Thiers and colleagues, the plan should draw on the existing capacity of biodiversity collections to provide researchers with a stable ...