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Tag Archives: trees
Results from tree outlining
In Season Spotter Image Marking, one of the tasks we ask you to do is to outline individual trees and tell us if they are broadleaf trees or needle-leaf ones. It’s easier to see different trees at different times of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbutus Lake, Huntington Forest, New York, outlines, trees
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Jungle Rhythms: find the rhythm of tropical trees
This week I launched a new Zooniverse project, Jungle Rhythms, that aims to digitize thousands of pages of detailed historical observations of the life cycle of trees in Africa. Belgian scientists were stationed at the Yangambi Research Station in what … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen science, Research
Tagged climate change, DR Congo, phenology, trees, tropical
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Indications of spring
In 1789, British naturalist Robert Marsham published a chart in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society called “Indications of spring.” In this chart he lists the first day of the year on which he noticed particular events at his … Continue reading