Our Discovery Mission
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discover and document all remaining Australian species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms ... in a generation.
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How on Earth are we going to do this?
Roundtable 8: What role can citizen science play in our mission?
Session 1
28 April 2020 at 3:30:00 am
Tom May
Leader(s):
Citizen science is increasingly important and popular, for a range of reasons. Many programs use citizen scientists to record aspects of biodiversity, usually observation records and images. But while these have some relevance to taxonomy (by adding new observations for known species, and occasionally serendipitously finding new species), on the whole they are fairly peripheral to taxonomy per se. This roundtable will consider issues around citizen science and taxonomy, including:
Can we make better use of citizen science for species discovery, delimitation and documentation, and if so, how?
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Alison Pouliot
Institution
