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    Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...

    ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is...
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    Empirically derived guidance for social scientists to influence environmental...

    Failure to stem trends of ecological disruption and associated loss of ecosystem services worldwide is partly due to the inadequate integration of the human dimension into...
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    Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...

    Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific...
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    Aquatic macroinvertebrates stabilize gravel bed sediment: A test using silk n...

    Organisms can have large effects on the physical properties of the habitats where they live. For example, measurements in laboratory stream microcosms have shown that the...
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    Evidence and impact of map error on land use and land cover dynamics in Ashi ...

    Previously, applications of intensity analysis (IA) on land use and land cover change (LULCC) studies have focused on deviations from uniform intensity (UI) and failed to...
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    What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis

    Context The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research. Several descriptions of this purportedly new...
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    Spatial overlap between environmental policy instruments and areas of high co...

    In order to safeguard biodiversity in forest we need to know how forest policy instruments work. Here we use a nationwide network of 9400 plots in productive forest to analyze...
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    Retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority faculty in sci...

    The current climate on college campuses has brought new urgency to the need to increase faculty diversity. In STEM fields particularly, the dearth of underrepresented minority...
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    Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...

    European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with...
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    webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurem...

    : Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from...
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    Assessing the flow to low-income urban areas of conservation and environmenta...

    : Government funding accounts for a large proportion of conservation and environmental improvements, and is often the result of citizen votes on state ballot measures. A key...
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    Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective....
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    Impact of product subsidies on R&D investment for new energy vehicle firms: C...

    Different consumer groups accept new energy vehicles sequentially from the perspective of innovation diffusion theory, and the early adopter group has recently been identified....
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    PhotoId-Whale: Blue whale dorsal fin classification for mobile devices

    Photo-identification (photo-id) is a method used in field studies by biologists to monitor animals according to their density, movement patterns and behavior, with the aim of...
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    The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong...

    The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There...
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    "Anyone Know What Species This Is?" – Twitter Conversations as Embryonic Citi...

    Social media like blogs, micro-blogs or social networks are increasingly being investigated and employed to detect and predict trends for not only social and physical phenomena,...
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    Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine Protected ...

    Peer reviewed article. Citation: Dedman, S., Officer, R., Clarke, M., Reid, D. G., & Brophy, D. (2017). Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine...
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    A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of prote...

    An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of...
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    The art and science of selecting graduate students in the biomedical sciences...

    : The goal of this study was to investigate associations between admissions criteria and performance in Ph.D. programs at Boston University School of Medicine. The initial phase...
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    Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research commu...

    AbstractIn 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation launched a new program focused on incubating a new field, “Microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). By the end of 2017, the...