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Topic: Recent papers

The following papers are of interest:
van der Wal, R., Anderson, H., Robinson, A., Sharma, N., Mellish, C., Roberts, S., Darvill, B., and Siddharthan, A. 2015. Mapping species distributions: A comparison of skilled naturalist and lay citizen science recording. Ambio 44 Suppl 4: 584–600
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26508346
Tewksbury, J.J., Anderson, J.G.T., Bakker, J.D., Billo, T.J., Dunwiddie, P.W., Groom, M.J., Hampton, S.E., Herman, S.G., Levey, D.J., Machnicki, N.J., Del Rio, C.M., Power, M.E., Rowell, K., Salomon, A.K., Stacey, L., Trombulak, S.C., and Wheeler, T. a. 2014. Natural history’s place in science and society. Bioscience 64: 300–310
http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/co … l.pdf+html

One without reference to GBIF and the other without reference to UK naturalists.