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Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Citizen science data are increasingly used in research and conservation, so assessing and improving data accuracy is important. We recruited 50 experts to review a dataset of Western Australian plant records from iNaturalist. Across three weeks, almost 11,000 records received at least one identification.
Thomas Mesaglio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing synergies between botany education research and ethnobotany to improve understanding of plant awareness

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Strengthening the relationships between humans and plants can restore people's experience of nature and ultimately counteract the widespread loss of biodiversity. In this opinion article, we argue that much potential for understanding and increasing human–plant relationships lies untapped, because of a lack of cross‐fertilisation between two ...
Christoph Schunko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The women honoured in flowering plant genera: From myth to reality

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Many flowering plant genera are named for people, but there is a gender gap in this naming, with only 6% of eponyms honouring women. Here we explore this gap by examining in detail women for whom plant genera are named. Our open shared dataset serves to make women honoured in plant genera more discoverable, resulting in further impact by allowing ...
Sabine von Mering   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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