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Science 25 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5385, pp. 1935 - 1936
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5385.1935a
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ECOLOGY:
NSF Eyes Biodiversity Monitoring Network

Jeffrey Mervis

In what could turn into the most ambitious effort yet to systematically study Earth's ecosystems, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun planning what may become a global system of biodiversity observatories. The idea appears to be on a fast track at NSF as one of several environmental initiatives promoted by new director Rita Colwell (see p. 1944). The observatories program would build on a spate of NSF-funded activity in recent years to study biodiversity and ecological processes.

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