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Tag - Citizen Science
Dale Maylea
Botanical gardens act as artificial oases for butterflies in arid urban areas
Botanical gardens provide access to vital plants and water for butterflies in the southwest US. This will only become more important as the climate becomes warmer and drier.
Alun Salt
Dutch Scientists Learn How to Get Better Botanical Data from the Public
Instead of complaining about the limits of volunteer work, some Dutch botanists have found how to improve their understanding of data from citizen scientists.
Is that an invasive alien species? Time to reach for the phone.
Smartphone apps are a tool that could help monitor, predict, and ideally prevent the spread of invasive species. But are they living up to their full potential?
Flora Incognita shows high identification accuracy in Northern Europe
Plant identification apps are now widely available for smartphones but can we trust them for research and nature conservation purposes?
William Salter
Training and high quality images needed for best online annotation of digital specimens
Volunteers produced the most accurate annotations in-person, but both in-person and online volunteers gave good results.
Erin Zimmerman
Seaweeds, lichens and phytoplankton, what’s not to like..?
Rocky Shores, by John Archer–Thompson and Julian Cremona 2019. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. “Rocky shores are one of the most extreme environments on the planet.” [Anon.] This is a BOTANY blog site! OK, let’s...
Nigel Chaffey
Citizen science data can complement collections well for some applications
The range and occurrence of anther smut shows very similar patterns in both collections and iNaturalist data.
Koalas up a gum tree, but having the last laugh..?
Koalas break the local stereotype by being Australians who don't drink. Or so it was thought.
Now is the time start a nature diary
You can help nature by making a little time for yourself.
MELiSSA delivers AstroPlant
We have an interest in plant biology in space here on the blog, so naturally we’re excited about MELiSSA’s AstroPlant desktop greenhouse. Normally we’re blogging about either space salad or else plant...
How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
As part of Plant Facts Week (#PlantFactsWeek🌱) we present this post about online herbaria and the great things you can learn about plants and get involved in a citizen science project from Louise Marsh...
Louise Marsh