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Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands

The Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands, published in 2006, contains over 4,000 full colour digital photographs taken with a microscope and represents 1,828 taxa. The atlas comprises wild plants, adventitious plants and cultivated plants that have gone wild. The Digital Seed Atlas presents a unique picture of the variation and the characteristics of the seeds and fruits of the Dutch flora. This atlas has been published as a combination of a book and website. Because of the three indices to the book and the advanced search function of the website it is an indispensible tool to identify seeds and fruits.

The book

The hardcover book of more than 500 pages contains 4,000 full colour photographs of all the plant parts presented as well as extensive indices.

A pdf file containing the Table of Contents, Introduction, 3 pages with photographs, the Glossary and the Indexes is available here for free. The photograph pages are in "screen" quality, not print quality. The file is about 4 MB large!

The introduction is in both English and Dutch, and at the back of the book are indexes of both the Dutch and the scientific plant names.

The book can be purchased here.

The website

The website consists of a free and protected part. In the free part, which is accessible for all, one may browse through the atlas and view all photographs in small format. In the protected part, which becomes accessible by purchasing the book, the photographs can be viewed in a larger format and examined in more detail. The website of the Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands also has a Dutch and English search key based on seed and fruit characteristics, thus helping to name unknown specimens.

Please visit the website of the Digital Seed Atlas: www.seedatlas.nl

Readership

The seed atlas will be of use to ecologists, plant taxonomists, palaeobotanists and amateur florists in the Netherlands as well as abroad.

Extra information

The costs of the Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands are € 148.- for private individuals, and € 203.- for institutions and companies. These prices are including 6 % VAT. Private individuals will have access to the website by means of a user name and password, companies and institutions through IP address authentication so that all staff will automatically have access to the website without further identification.

Also see the full colour brochure has appeared, containing descriptions of and photographs from all three atlases. You may download the brochure here (PDF, 7 MB).

All images of plant parts on this page and in the banner can be enlarged by clicking on them.

Summary

Title: Digital Seed Atlas of the Netherlands
Authors: R.T.J. Cappers, R.M. Bekker & J.E.A. Jans
Language: bilingual (English and Dutch) and scientific plant names
Publication year: 2006
Pages: XXVI + 502
Hardbound. Size: 21 x 29.7 cm
Price: € 148.- private individuals; € 203.- institutions
Purchase of the book grants access to the protected part of the websites (www.zadenatlas.nl en www.seedatlas.nl).
ISBN: 9789077922118
Free downloads: a number of pages from the book, the full colour brochure of the Digital Plant Atlas project