BLACKSBURG, Va., March 24 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Have you ever been in the woods and wondered what bug you're hearing or which bird is singing?These days, new technologies are helping both scientists and the public identify what'strilling, scuttling, tweeting, rustling, or slithering around a given area.
But not all emerging tech emerges equally, which is why biologist Julie Allen and an international working group developed a set of recommendations to ensure trustworthy biodiversity monitoring data. Their nine suggestions were published March 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Allen's credentials for biodiversity surveying are iron clad. In 2024, h...