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Durant Nature Preserve Program: Pollination, and the Great Southeastern Pollinator Census

Durant Nature Preserve Program: Pollination, and the Great Southeastern Pollinator Census


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Join NCBP member Tracy Feldman at Durant Nature Preserve in Raleigh.

Description: Pollinators help many plants make fruits and seeds--without them many of our foods would not be available to us. Yet pollinators are declining worldwide. Come learn about pollinators and help monitor pollinators for a citizen science project, the Great Southeastern Pollinator Census! Children must be accompanied by adults. Children and adults must register.


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Using citizen science to bridge taxonomic discovery with education and outreach

Using citizen science to bridge taxonomic discovery with education and outreach



Biological collections are uniquely poised to inform the stewardship of life on Earth in a time of cataclysmic biodiversity loss. Efforts to fully leverage collections are impeded by a lack of trained taxonomists and a lack of interest and engagement by the public. We provide a model of a crowd‐sourced data collection project that produces quality taxonomic data sets and empowers citizen scientists through real contributions to science. Entitled MicroPlants, the project is a collaboration between taxonomists, citizen science experts, and teachers and students from universities and K–12.


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The Value of Citizen Science in Increasing Our Knowledge of Under-Sampled Biodiversity: An Overview of Public Documentation of Auchenorrhyncha and the Hoppers of North Carolina

The Value of Citizen Science in Increasing Our Knowledge of Under-Sampled Biodiversity: An Overview of Public Documentation of Auchenorrhyncha and the Hoppers of North Carolina



Due to the increasing popularity of websites specializing in nature documentation, there has been a surge in the number of people enthusiastic about observing and documenting nature over the past 2 decades. These citizen scientists are recording biodiversity on unprecedented temporal and spatial scales, rendering data of tremendous value to the scientific community.


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