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Teaching Categories to Human Learners with Visual Explanations [PDF]

, 2018
We study the problem of computer-assisted teaching with explanations. Conventional approaches for machine teaching typically only provide feedback at the instance level e.g., the category or label of the instance.
Chen, Yuxin, Mac Aodha, Oisin, Perona, Pietro, Su, Shihan, Yue, Yisong   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Crowdsourced Indicators of Flora and Fauna Species: Comparisons Between iNaturalist Records and Field Observations

Land
Cultural ecosystem services provide intangible benefits such as recreation and aesthetic enjoyment but are difficult to quantify compared to provisioning or regulating ecosystem services.
Hyuksoo Kwon, B. Seo, Jungin Kim, Heera Lee   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Amanita theophili sp. nov. (Amanitaceae) from central Mexico

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Amanita theophili sp. nov., a member of Amanita sect. Amidella (Amanitaceae), is described from temperate pine‐oak forests in Morelos, central Mexico. Morphological features and phylogenetic analyses based on ITS and 28S rDNA sequences confirm its distinct taxonomic status. The new species is morphologically similar to A. peckiana and A.
Evangelina Pérez‐Silva, Edith Garay‐Serrano   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing ChatGPT for taxonomic and floristic studies

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
The advancement of biological sciences has long been closely linked to technological progress. ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot capable of producing human‐like conversational responses, has recently attracted attention as a potential support tool for scientific research.
Mykyta Peregrym, Olena Kozak, Ahmet Emre Yaprak, Alan Elliott, Pedro Bond Schwartsburd, Karime Abidkulova, Anna Voytsekhovich, Olena Danylevska   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson, Monika Suškevičs, Baiba Prūse, Marta Barberis, Sara A. O. Cousins, Živa Fišer, Margaux Julien, Marianne Kivastik, Marcin Klisz, Attila Lengyel, Zuzana Münzbergová, Radosław Puchałka, Iris Reinula, Froukje Rienks, Julie Koch Sheard, Viktor Siverin, Bojana Stojanova, Sabrina Träger, Tsipe Aavik   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring [PDF]

, 2017
To meet collective obligations towards biodiversity conservation and monitoring, it is essential that the world's governments and non-governmental organisations as well as the research community tap all possible sources of data and information, including
Bonde, A.M.Z., Chandler, M., Copas, K., Danielsen, F., Legind, J.K., López, B.C., Masinde, S., Miller-Rushing, A.J., Newman, G., Rosemartin, A., See, L., Turak, E.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

The importance of integrating herbarium records into conservation plans: a case study on Honduran ferns and lycophytes

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Herbarium collections are powerful, yet underutilized, tools for global biodiversity conservation and protected area management. By integrating digitized herbarium records with existing biodiversity data, previously unknown plant species were uncovered, exposing critical gaps in conservation knowledge.
Sven P. Batke, Thom Dallimore, Johan Reyes‐Chávez, David G. Hill, Wendy Atkinson, Eric van den Berghe, Geraldine Reid   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The High Seas at Your Fingertips: A Case Study of the Living Sailor Leveraging Community Science to Answer Decades Old Questions in High Seas Biogeography

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
The open-ocean’s surface is host to a community of strange creatures adapted for life at the air-sea interface (neustonic zone). One species, the by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella), occasionally washes ashore in high numbers, and its appearance makes ...
Tom Iwanicki, Rebecca R. Helm
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart, Nicholas W. Bard, Michelle van der Bank, T. Jonathan Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengths and limitations of using participatory science data to characterize a wildlife mass mortality event

Ecosphere
Participatory science (i.e., “community science” or “citizen science”) platforms are increasingly used at every level of ecological and conservation research, including disease monitoring.
Liam U. Taylor, Tatsiana Barychka, Seabird McKeon, Natasha Bartolotta, Stephanie Avery‐Gomm   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source