Quantitative Ethnobotany of Natural Dye Plants in the Lesser Sunda Islands' Ikat Weaving Traditions
EthnobotanyDiscover how quantitative ethnobotany reveals the cultural significance and phytochemical properties of traditional...
Peter Alden
Herbarium Curator
Regional flora, vascular plant collections, and diagnostic morphology
Peter Alden approaches regional flora from first principles: diagnostic characters, habitat constraints, reproductive biology, and documented human use. He has curated vascular-plant collections at a major U.S. university herbarium and teaches evidence hierarchy for floristic writing. His contributions separate observation from inference, ensuring that taxonomy, distribution, and utility are presented as linked but independently verifiable claims.
