Volunteers in the north-east of England believe created a benchmark survey of common plants with which to identify change in the countryside,its result and causes. This survey will be used in future to monitor the effects of climate change on plants; assess the success of conservation measures and predict future change. Its findings are published in the open-access journal Biodiversity Data Journal, contributing an additional 35000 observations to the 200000 observations collected by local recorders since the turn of the millennium .
Source: phys.org