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Scaling biodiversity monitoring for the data age

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Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring for the Data Age

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Technological advances have made it possible to collect massive amounts of biodiversity data. How can analysis efforts keep up?

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          XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students  Volume 27, Issue 4
          Computing and Sustainability
          Summer 2021
          59 pages
          ISSN:1528-4972
          EISSN:1528-4980
          DOI:10.1145/3472736
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