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Saturday, 26 January 2019 15:57

Drones help scientists check the health of Antarctic mosses, revealing climate change clues

Written by Sharon Robinson
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Drones are helping scientists check the health of Antarctic mosses, revealing clues on the pace of climate change.

Read more in the Conversation

Plus here is the Youtube video

and if you want to read the paper

 Malenovský Z, Lucieer A King DK, Turnbull JD & Robinson SA (2017) Unmanned aircraft system advances health mapping of fragile polar vegetation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 1842-1857

 

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