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Lisbon city gardeners, from horticulture to Landscape Architecture (1840–1960)

In a growing problematic urban environment, we believe in the high value of urban parks and gardens and the role of qualified professionals in charge of their up-keeping. The complexity that entails the training of landscape architects and the experience in garden maintenance triggered the research on the agents, the periods, and the results expressed through 120-years (1840–1960) of Lisbon’s gardens management...

Documenting the flora of a diversity hotspot: Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) a...

Oceanic island floras often exhibit remarkable concentrations of endemic diversity, provide spectacular examples of rapid evolutionary radiations and harbour floras under significant threat due to anthropogenic pressures. They have attracted the interest of biologists for centuries, but their floras continue to yield new taxa and, at a global scale, the extent of their plant diversity remains imperfectly known....

Documenting the flora of a diversity hotspot: Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) a...

Oceanic island floras often exhibit remarkable concentrations of endemic diversity, provide spectacular examples of rapid evolutionary radiations and harbour floras under significant threat due to anthropogenic pressures. They have attracted the interest of biologists for centuries, but their floras continue to yield new taxa and, at a global scale, the extent of their plant diversity remains imperfectly known....

BiographicaI notes on Mary Young and Caroline Norton, illustrators of Madeiran ...

BiographicaI notes on Mary Young and Caroline Norton, illustrators of Madeiran ...

In 1834 and 1835, ten plates based on illustrations by ‘Miss Young’ and the ‘Hon. Miss Norton’ were published in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine to illustrate texts prepared by Richard Thomas Lowe and sent through his friend William Jackson Hooker. Mary Young is listed in the Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Including plant col lectors, flower painters and garden designers, for this con...

Madeira giant bellflower (Musschia aurea), an endemic species from Madeira, in ...

Musschia aurea (Linnaeus f.) Dumortier, Madeira giant bellflower, is a plant species endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, first discovered and described in the late 18th century. As part of a broader investigation on the evolution of the knowledge of Madeira’s plants up to the 19th century, research was conducted to locate references and illustrations of Musschia aurea produced or published during the 18th and 1...

Tracing the Azorean Jasmine (Jasminum Azoricum L.), an endemic species from Mad...

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) and his correspondence networks: botanical exch...

The growth of scientific knowledge in the natural sciences in the nineteenth century to a large extent depended on networking and communication between naturalists. Our case-study illustrates such forms of scientific communication using a social network analysis (SNA) approach for studying the relationships of the Reverend Richard Thomas Lowe, an English naturalist who lived in Madeira from 1826 to 1852, and co...

Madeira giant bellflower (Musschia aurea), an endemic species from Madeira, in ...

Musschia aurea (Linnaeus f.) Dumortier, Madeira giant bellflower, is a plant species endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, first discovered and described in the late 18th century. As part of a broader investigation on the evolution of the knowledge of Madeira’s plants up to the 19th century, research was conducted to locate references and illustrations of Musschia aurea produced or published during the 18th and 1...

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