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citizen science: a tool for conservation

Citizen Science: A Tool for Conservation

Citizen Science: A Tool for Conservation, A White Paper from Science Connected Science Connected. (2018). Citizen Science: A Tool for Conservation [White paper]. Contents Introduction Citizen Science: Participatory Research and Analysis Case Studies Tracking Biodiversity Protecting Endangered Species Additional Resources References About Science Connected Acknowledgements Introduction Science, particularly the science of conservation, is often a collaborative process. Whether within a single discipline or across numerous fields, people work together to achieve goals. When it comes to environmental science, those goals may be as narrow as identifying what chemical compounds are…

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Forests Alone Can’t Stop Climate Change

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Ecologist Nicolas Medina explains how fossil-fuel use impacts forests and drives climate change. Carbon may run deeper than you think, and forests alone can’t stop climate change. By Nicholas L. Medina The US is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China, and President Obama has called climate change a “national and global security threat.” Now, we urgently need to understand why our fossil fuel use will have long-lasting effects on global climates and our forests. We need to reduce our societal CO2 emissions quickly and substantially. Can We Stop…

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Genome Revelations: How Green Plants Evolved

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By Jacqueline Mattos Plants are ancestral organisms that have evolved over millions of years, leading to the broad diversity we see today. Green plants evolved from a common ancestor into approximately 450,000–500,000 species today. There are many gaps in understanding of their diversification that scientists still struggle to fill. In a recent paper published in Nature, researchers from the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative reviewed and analyzed genomic data from 1,124 plant species and provided the most complete evolutionary relationship tree for green plants to date. Genomes, transcriptomes, and phylogenetics…