Biocube Volunteers (IMAGE)

Ecological Society of America

Biocube Volunteers

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Volunteers for Smithsonian's Biocube project sort and identify specimens for a biodiversity survey. Modeled on the classic ecologist's quadrat, which marks out a standard sampling plot, Biocube guides observers to catalog the variety of life found in one cubic foot of soil or seawater.

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Carolyn A. F. Enquist

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