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Identification is the foundation of biology - without reliable species-level ID all else is suspect.  Similarly, biological recording, especially long-term monitoring, is the very basis of ecology - the study of species in their environments.

My research uses citizen-science biological-recording schemes to uncover large-scale ecological processes, and the drivers causing these processes.  This would not be possible without volunteer recorders, and I have a strong interest in public engagement with science, in particular recruiting and teaching the next generation of biological recorders.

Salisbury Plain, 2015