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  2. List of citizen science projects - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] An emerging branch of Citizen Science are Community Mapping projects that utilize smartphone and tablet technology. For example, TurtleSAT [6] is a community mapping project that is mapping freshwater turtle deaths throughout Australia. This list of citizen science projects involves projects that engage all age groups.

  3. Conservation biology - Wikipedia

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    Conservation biologists work in the field and office, in government, universities, non-profit organizations and industry. The topics of their research are diverse, because this is an interdisciplinary network with professional alliances in the biological as well as social sciences.

  4. Citizen science - Wikipedia

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    Citizen science (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is research conducted with participation from the general public, or amateur /nonprofessional researchers or participants for science, social science and many other disciplines. [1][2] There are ...

  5. Community (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    A bear with a salmon. Interspecific interactions such as predation are a key aspect of community ecology.. In ecology, a community is a group or association of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time, also known as a biocoenosis, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, or life assemblage.

  6. Ecosystem - Wikipedia

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    e. An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction. [2]: 458 The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Ecosystems are controlled by external and internal factors. External factors such as climate, parent material which ...

  7. Species translocation - Wikipedia

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    Species translocation. Translocation is the human action of moving an organism from one area and releasing it in another. In terms of wildlife conservation, its objective is to improve the conservation status of the translocated organism or to restore the function and processes of the ecosystem the organism is entering.

  8. Community-based participatory research - Wikipedia

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    Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an equitable approach to research in which researchers, organizations, and community members collaborate on all aspects of a research project. CBPR empowers all stakeholders to offer their expertise and partake in the decision-making process. CBPR projects aim to increase the body of knowledge ...

  9. Community genetics - Wikipedia

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    Community genetics is a recently emerged [citation needed] field in biology that fuses [clarification needed] elements of community ecology, evolutionary biology, and molecular and quantitative genetics. Antonovics [ 1] first articulated the vision for such a field, and Whitham et al. [ 2] formalized its definition as "The study of the genetic ...