Global Pollen Project reaches 1,000 species
July 19, 2016
The Global Pollen Project – a tool for pollen identification created and developed by members of the Oxford Long-Term Ecology Lab (Andrew Martin and William Harvey) – now has over 1,000 plant species, in 534 genera and 142 families.
The project aims to provide a global reference library for pollen grain identification and study, by enabling the easy digitisation of existing collections in institutions anywhere in the world. It also provides a platform for crowdsourcing identifications for unknown pollen grains. These are then incorporated into the master reference collection.
The master reference collection is rapidly expanding, featuring:
- Pollen of Britain and Ireland, courtesy of Professor Keith Bennett (University of St Andrews),
- Pollen of the Canary Islands, courtesy of Lea de Nascimento and Sandra Nogué (University of La Laguna and University of Southampton), and
- the Oxford European Reference Collection from this institution, courtesy of Professor Kathy Willis. The digitisation of this collection is in progress but near completion.
All images are available under a non-commercial attribution license, enabling you to use the library within your own projects.
Agrostemma githago slide in the Global Pollen Project
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