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Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities.

Published online: 28 Oct 2021

Authors: Winch, K. & Stafford, R. & Gillingham, P. & Thorsen, E. & Diaz, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well-being while encouraging environmental stewar...

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Win-wins by matching environmental volunteering opportunities with interests of online search communities.

Published online: 13 Nov 2020

Authors: Winch, K. & Stafford, R. & Gillingham, P. & Thorsen, E. & Diaz, A.

Content type: Blog

This paper explores what interests communities searching online for environmental volunteering opportunities and how organisations may best match thei...

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FSC BioLinks Development Plan for Training Provision [version 3].

Published online: 23 Feb 2023

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Brown, K. D.

Content type: Reports

BioLinks is an upcoming Field Studies Council biodiversity project. One key outcome of which is to facilitate the development of volunteers to a high ...

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FSC BioLinks consultation report: analysis of the FSC BioLinks development phase consultation from April 2016 to January 2017.

Published online: 07 Jul 2020

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Brown, K. D.

Content type: Reports

The Field Studies Council (FSC) has a 70-year tradition of training and resource development for taxonomic identification skills. FSC BioLinks is a ne...

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FSC Biolinks Activity Plan: Component of the BioLinks project application to the Heritage Lottery Fund HG 15 01220 [version 2].

Published online: 20 Jan 2023

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Content type: Reports

It is generally accepted that conservation of natural heritage is important to people, communities, and the environment. However, invertebrate species...

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Ecological restoration at the university of Wisconsin-Madison arboretum and beyond: building and sharing collective knowledge through a participatory leadership framework.

Published online: 24 May 2024

Authors: Farrior, M. & Kingsbury, J. & Herrick, B. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The Society for Ecological Restoration defines restoration as "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, ...

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FSC Invertebrate Challenge project evaluation report.

Published online: 20 May 2020

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Boardman, P.

Content type: Reports

This project reports on the outcomes of the development of volunteer invertebrate recorders who are knowledgeable and confident to accurately record i...

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Estimating the carbon footprint of citizen science biodiversity monitoring.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Gillings, S. & Harris, S. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Across society there is pressure to assess and reduce carbon emissions to meet the obligations of the Paris Agreement and the Glasgow Climate Pact. Wi...

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What monarch butterfly waystation names and characteristics can reveal about program participants.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Geest, E. A. & Taylor, O. R. & Baum, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have undergone large scale population declines leading to multiple conservation organizations encouraging the c...

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Phylogenetic diversity reveals hidden patterns related to population source and species pools during restoration.

Published online: 12 Apr 2017

Authors: Khalil, M. I. & Gibson, D. J. & Baer, S. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A phylogenetic perspective of community assembly can reveal new insights into how variation within dominant species interacts with the local species p...

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