ArticleEcology and evolution2022
The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Biocultural diversity and crop improvement.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2023Review
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- The road to herbaria: Teaching and learning about biology, aesthetics, and the history of botany.Journal of biosciences · 2023Article
- A repeatable scoring system for assessing Smartphone applications ability to identify herbaceous plants.PloS one · 2023Article
- Iconic Arable Weeds: The Significance of Corn Poppy (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The botanical education extinction and the fall of plant awareness.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Civilization is dependent upon plants for survival. Plants permeate our every moment and our relationship with them will dictate how we will manage the threats of climate change and ecological collapse defining the Anthropocene. Yet, despite the significance of plants and the critical role they have played in shaping ecosystems, civilizations, and human cultures, many people are now disconnected from the botanical world. Students are presented with little plant content, particularly identification, compared with animal content. Consequently, we are producing few plant scientists and educating fewer scientists about plants. This drives a self-accelerating cycle we term
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