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Endangered species: could better tracking methods reduce vulnerability or extinction?

Guest blogger botanist Craig Costion has written an article on endangered species on Biodiversity Revolution‘s blog which describes a new approach to developing the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) classification for potentially endangered species for which no demographic information is available. The term ‘endangered species’ refers to species which fall under the IUCN’s […]

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Plant DNA Barcodes Can Accurately Estimate Species Richness in Poorly Known Floras

A new paper written by Environment Institute members, Craig Costion, Hugh Cross and Andrew Lowe as well as Andrew Ford from CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and Darren Crayn and Mark Harrington from the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, has recently been published in PLoS One. The paper titled ‘Plant DNA Barcodes Can Accurately Estimate Species […]

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