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    Digital Resources

    Explore BRIT’s digital resources, including digitized herbarium collections of vascular plants, (including xylarium), fungi, lichens, bryophytes, and algae. Access research data, live streams, and citizen science platforms through key portals and archives below.

     

     

    Herbarium Collections

    TORCH Portal – This site includes all the digitized plant specimens from BRIT (BRIT, SMU, VDB, NLU) along with the specimens of other herbaria in the Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH).

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    MyCoPortal – Mycology collections from BRIT (and many other herbaria)

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    Bryophyte Portal – Bryophyte collections from BRIT (and many other herbaria)

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    Lichen Portal – Lichen collections from BRIT (and many other herbaria)

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    Macroalgal Portal – Macroalgae collections from BRIT (and many other herbaria)

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    Xylarium – Wood collection inventory

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    Gretchen and Stanley Jones Palynological Collection – Over 5,000 pollen slides built and donated by Gretchen D. Jones, Palynological Research Scientist, with the Agricultural Research Service (USDA), in 2014

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    Library Collections & Archives

    Navigate our online searchable catalog of the BRIT Library holdings.

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    Other Resources

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    1. Native American Ethnobotany Database

      A searchable database of plants used by Native Americans, compiled by Dr. Daniel Moerman.

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      BRIT Roof Camera

      View a live video stream of BRIT’s Living Roof located in Fort Worth, Texas.

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    3. Notes from Nature

      A crowdsourcing platform where BRIT and many other collections invite the community of citizen scientists to help transcribe scientific specimens.

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