What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants?

From	kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	sci.physics, talk.politics.guns, alt.checkmate
Subject	What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants?
Date	2018-09-05 11:59 -0400
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For the past half-decade, the National Science Foundation has helped 
fund the processing of turning these dead-plants—many of which come with 
a species title, a collection data, and a geotag—into a database. Now, 
researchers at Princeton University and elsewhere have figured out how 
to use this database to reveal how climate change is mangling 
California—and the world’s—ecosystems:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/the-peculiar-importance-of-a-dead-plant-library/474438/#article-comments

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What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? kensi <kkensington01@gmail.nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-05 11:59 -0400
  Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 13:19 -0400
    Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-09-05 13:40 -0500
      Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 14:11 -0700
        Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 19:33 -0400
          Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 20:14 -0700
            Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2018-09-06 21:37 -0700
        Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2018-09-06 15:21 -0700
          Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 20:21 -0700
            Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2018-09-06 21:43 -0700
      Re: What Good Is a Library Full of Dead Plants? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-09-05 19:26 -0400

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