Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Biodiversity research in the digital age


The next decade of biodiversity research will need to move “understanding of the natural world into the digital age”. Authors of a new paper, published in the open access journal BMC Ecology, calls for a standardisation and linking up of disparate datasets, a technological update of the established field of taxonomy, and a pivotal role for citizen scientists, to leapfrog understanding and drive future funding priority.

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