The successful colonization of new environments by alien plant species highly depends on local environmental conditions. In this recent paper by Charly Géron and colleagues, we were able to prove that climatic conditions in a species’ native range plays a major role in understanding if the species is or is …
In our last session of this course we got introduced to René van der Wal, Professor of Environmental Citizen Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), whose research addresses the impact of participating in citizen science on participants and the broader impacts of citizen science on society as a whole.
Was Charles Darwin a citizen scientist, when boarding, as a yet untrained naturalist, the HMS Beagle to make observations that later revolutionized our knowledge of life on earth? Already centuries ago ordinary people (but mostly wealthy gentlemen) recorded features and observations of the natural world. With more structured designs and …
