Unveiling the Environmental Heritage of University Museums

Soldanella pusilla specimen collected by Wilhelm Schilber in June 1918 in Davos, Switzerland

Item

Title
Soldanella pusilla specimen collected by Wilhelm Schilber in June 1918 in Davos, Switzerland
Description
Conserved alpine plant, originally collected to document the local occurrences on summits, provides important information about effects of climatic warming in expanding altitudinal distribution during the past 100 years.
Place
Herbarium of the University of Zurich
Rights Holder
University of Zurich
Subject
herbarium specimen
historical documentation
plant distribution
Temporal Coverage
Current Modern Era
Rights
CC BY-NC 4.0