HerbVar Project Manual & Field Protocols
Preamble
This book is a manual for researchers involved the the HerbVar Project. It includes a checklist for new collaborators, guidelines on accessing, adding, and using project data, tutorials for using the RStudio Project Templates for conducting analyses and preparing manuscripts, protocols for field work, and guides for administering the HerbVar Network resources (e.g., website, data portal).
The HerbVar Steering Committee would like to express their appreciation to the following authors of Alternative & Protocols and Guides to Data Collection:
Reproductive Damage: Phil Hahn (University of Florida), Susan Whitehead (Virgina Tech), Paul Ode (Colorado State University), Will Wetzel (University of Montana)
Cacti & Succulents: Judie Bronstein (University of Arizona), Victoria Luizzi (University of Arizona)
Trees: Bastien Castagneyrol (NRAE-UMR BIOGECO), Amy Trowbridge (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Will Wetzel (University of Montana), Moria Robinson (Utah State University)
Estimating Damage: Ian Pearse (U.S. Geological Survey), Zoe Getman-Pickering (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Julie Davis (Cornell University), Bastien Castagneyrol (NRAE-UMR BIOGECO), Will Wetzel (University of Montana)
Low-Density Plants: Danielle Salcido (University of Nevada, Reno), Lee Dyer (University of Nevada, Reno), Will Wetzel (University of Montana)
Rhizomatous Geophytes: Yuval Sapir (Tel Aviv University)
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. NSF DEB-2203582.
HerbVar Steering Committee (Eds.). 2024. HerbVar: Project Manual and Field protocols (v0.9.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14232308
This guide is a Quarto Book hosted on the HerbVar Network’s Github site. Any team member can edit the text, add new sections, or make suggestions for improvement either by pull request or by posting an issue on the HerbVar Manual’s repository. For more information and tutorials for doing so, see 26 Editing the Manual.