How to turn public fountains into oases of biodiversity
With a degree in Biology specializing in zoology and a great passion for the natural world, she ended up working as a botanist making vegetation maps in the natural parks of the Sierra Norte de Sevilla de and Aracena with the University of Córdoba. He worked for several years on olive grove pests, focusing on the damage caused by the olive fly, until finally he became part of the team at the Royal Botanical Garden, where he is responsible for the Herbarium, the Collection of aquatic plants, as well as topics related to the wildlife. She is currently leading a project that will eliminate chlorine treatment from public fountains to turn them into healthy biodiversity hotspots.
-What is the herbarium of the Royal Botanical Garden of Córdoba?
-The herbarium of the Real Jardín Botánico de Córdoba is a national herbarium. The collection has approximately 60,000 herbarium sheets, belonging to 6,070 species of 244 families of vascular plants, most of which come from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. Some genera in the collection are well represented in terms of number of sheets and species, as they have been the subject of numerous scientific works. In addition, it includes an important collection of Iberian and Balearic endemic species, as well as Andalusian weed and ruderal flora. It also serves as a record and archive of the existing living plant collections in the Royal Botanical Garden of Córdoba, it has a collection of ornamental plants from parks and public gardens in the province of Córdoba, it is a repository for the specimens that are collected for their conservation. in seed form in the Andalusian Plant Germplasm Bank (BGVA), it maintains material used for DNA analysis and pollen studies, used in different doctoral theses and both ethnobotanical and general flora projects, etc.
