Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
Gustav Nachtigal; Nacht.; Gustav Nachtigall; G. Nachtigall; Nachtigal; Nachtigall; G. H. Nachtigal; G. H. Nachtigall; G. Nachtigal; Gustav H. Nachtigal; Gustav H. Nachtigall
February 23, 1834 – April 20, 1885
explorer, writer, botanical collector, botanist
German physician, consul-general and explorer of Central and West Africa
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Kingdom of Prussia
Nachtigal, Gustav. 2025. Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8166441
Science Enabled by Specimen Data
Bellot, S., R. P. Bayton, T. L. P. Couvreur, S. Dodsworth, W. L. Eiserhardt, M. S. Guignard, H. W. Pritchard, et al. 2020. On the origin of giant seeds: the macroevolution of the double coconut ( Lodoicea maldivica ) and its relatives (Borasseae, Arecaceae). New Phytologist 228: 1134–1148. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16750
Seed size shapes plant evolution and ecosystems, and may be driven by plant size and architecture, dispersers, habitat and insularity. How these factors influence the evolution of giant seeds is unclear, as are the rate of evolution and the biogeographical consequences of giant seeds. We generated D…
Khoury, C. K., D. Carver, D. W. Barchenger, G. E. Barboza, M. Zonneveld, R. Jarret, L. Bohs, et al. 2019. Modelled distributions and conservation status of the wild relatives of chile peppers ( Capsicum L.) J. Lambrinos [ed.],. Diversity and Distributions 26: 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13008
Aim: To fill critical knowledge gaps with regard to the distributions and conservation status of the wild relatives of chile peppers (Capsicum L.). Location: The study covered the potential native ranges of currently recognized wild Capsicum taxa, throughout the Americas. Methods: We modelled the po…