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AoBP ECOS 2020 Awardee Chris Muir
“Open science is one of the best tools we have to change scientific culture by incentivizing good scientific practice.”
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Three words to describe #ESA2020: Ecology, students and inspiration
Juniper Kiss reports on the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America.
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The 2020 AoBP ECOS Awards
Elise Gornish, Chris Muir and Larry York are the 2020 recipents of the AoBP ECOS Awards
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Seaweeds, the “food factories” from the sea
Unlocking the secrets of seaweed could have major benefits for human health.
Ecosystems
View from the sky sees new hope for restoring degraded forests
Degraded tropical forests are not lost causes. Restoration could help capture carbon and aid ecosystem recovery.
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Finding Meaning in the Undergraduate Research Experience
Meet them where they’re at, and show them they’re making an impact, say speakers.
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Symposium looks at new frontiers in collecting & collections
Collections may be poised for a “renaissance of biodiversity specimen collecting.”
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Botany 2020: More Botany Than You can Shake a (Virtual) Stick At
The shift to an online conference has brought some benefits to Botany 2020.
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Does biodiversity make gardening less stressful?
There are a few studies saying a garden can improve wellbeing, but what if your garden is a source of stress? You’re not alone, but research gives some hints about what to change to help improve things.
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Machine learning can help clear herbarium backlogs & potentially discover new species
Computers can combat the slow pace and shortage of expertise that plagues specimen identification and species discovery.
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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.
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Can’t Botanists agree on common names..?
A rose by any other name… would be incorrectly described.