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To celebrate Plant Conservation Day, the Global Pollen Project has today been featured on the Methods in Ecology and Evolution Blog, in a guest post by Andrew Martin.

The Global Pollen Project (GPP) is an initiative started by Andrew Martin and William Harvey of the Oxford Long-Term Ecology Laboratory.

A digitised slide of Rheum rhabarbarum, collected from Mongolia in 2004.

A digitised slide of Rheum rhabarbarum, collected from Mongolia in 2004.

The post highlights the contribution of palaeoecological data to biodiversity conservation, discussing how the GPP aims to bridge the gap between these areas of research.

View the full article here:

Tiny Grains, Big Data: The Global Pollen Project

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