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Lúcia G. Lohmann
Lúcia Garcez Lohmann is a Brazilian botanist specialized in neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ... biodiversity, with an emphasis on plant ecology and evolution in the Amazon basin, Amazon Basin. She is the director of the herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley and a professor in the department of integrative biology. Early life and education Lohmann was born in Brazil. She completed her undergraduate degree in biological sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1995. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the Bignoniaceae family from the Serra do Cipó National Park, Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais. She investigated the documenting the biodiversity of the Amazon Basin. Lohmann continued her studies at the University of Missouri–St. Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of botany-related texts. , over a million people visit the New York Botanical Garden annually. NYBG is also a major educational institution, teaching visitors about plant science, ecology, and healthful eating through NYBG's interactive programming. Nearly 90,000 of the annual visitors are children from underserved neighboring communities. An additional 3,000 are teachers from New York City's public school system participating in professional development programs that train them to teach science courses at all grade levels. NYBG operates one of the world's largest plant research and conservation programs. NY ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
