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Interactive, illustrated, plant identification keys: an example for the Portuguese flora
Abreu Silva, Maria Helena
Ferrera Pinho, Rosa Maria
Graciete, Lisia
Pereira Lopes, Martins
Cardoso da Silveira, Paulo
2010
Abstract
At the University of Aveiro, a multimedia tool was
developed to help the teaching of botany [1], [2]. It includes a
Dichotomous Interactive Key (DIK), for 390 taxa of vascular plants
occurring at “Ria de Aveiro” lagoon system. This key is linked to two
different glossaries, one descriptive, the other illustrated. At the end
of the identification process, the student is conducted to a webpage
including photographs, descriptions and other relevant information
about the taxa. The students considered it “very useful”, and the
successful identifications increased in the assessment tests in the
two years after the introduction of the DIK. This seem to be an
effective tool in the teaching of botany, namely in plant identification
at secondary and post-secondary level.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Maria Helena Abreu Silva [et al.], Interactive, illustrated, plant identification keys: an example for the Portuguese flora, in Pier Luigi Nimis and Régine Vignes Lebbe (eds.): “Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems. Proceedings of the International Congress, Paris, September 20-22, 2010”, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2010, p. 219.
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