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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=leonel@BOT.UC.PT href="mailto:leonel@BOT.UC.PT">Leonel Pereira</A>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I am pleased to announce the new digital collection
database called COI<STRONG> - </STRONG>Phycological Digital Collection,
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">accessible from January 1, through these
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color=#0000ff>www.uc.pt/seaweeds</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The “<STRONG><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">will document mainly</FONT><SPAN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> the Iberian algae flora, and from other European,
African and American countries.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Iberian Peninsula and Azores are regions of great
botanical and ecological interest. It is well known to botanists as a
phytogeographic boundary between the cold water flora typical of more northerly
regions, and the flora of warmer waters to the south. The herbarium collection,
dating back to the 1850s, documents to this important and diverse marine
flora.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kind Regards;</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'">_______________________<BR>Prof.
Leonel Pereira<BR>Department of Life Sciences<BR>IMAR-Institute of Marine
Research</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'">University
of Coimbra<BR>Coimbra - Portugal<BR>Tel. +351 239855241<BR>Fax. +351 239 855
211<BR>e-mail leonel@bot.uc.pt<BR>Web <A
href="http://www.uc.pt/seaweeds">www.uc.pt/seaweeds</A></DIV>
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