Drone strikes botanical gold
Thanks to a new tool, botanists have the power to observe and operate in even more remote parts of the world than before.
Nigel Chaffey
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I am a Botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany I contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that in
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