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Subject Area: Earth & Environment

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Measuring Forest Conservation Effectiveness
    Published December 2, 2019 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better impact evaluation of conservation policies. This PLOS ONE collection brings together a series of studies that evaluate the…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection Oceanic Metagenomics Collection
    Published May 21, 2019 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    The J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition revealed an enormous amount of previously unexplored diversity in the world's oceans. In addition to the research articles, this…

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Confronting Climate Change in the Age of Denial
    Published October 10, 2018 Curated Collections

    Most scientists believe that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time -- if not the greatest challenge. Yet too often, efforts to communicate science-based information about the…

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Open Highlights: Birds, Blooms, and Evolving Diversity
    Published October 4, 2018 Curated Collections

    How the traits that distinguish species develop and diversify over time is a long-standing question in the field of evolutionary biology. This Open Highlight investigates how species have evolved…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection GIGA: Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance research
    Published September 21, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    GIGA is an international non-profit community of scientists dedicated to promoting genomics research of diverse non-model invertebrate species. Invertebrates comprise over 95% of all animal species…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection Sauropod Gigantism: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
    Published May 25, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals to roam the Earth, exceeding all other land-dwelling vertebrates in both mean and maximal body size. While convergently evolving many features…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection Biodiversity of Saba Bank
    Published May 25, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    Saba Bank is the largest submarine atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to the nearby island of Saba, in the Netherlands Antilles. The submerged platform is ~2200 sq km, with a 50 km fringing reef…

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  • Biology & Life Sciences A PLOS Collection The World Register of Marine Species
    Published May 24, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    This collection has been created by the editors of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), an open-access online database which holds information on all marine species, and some of their…

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  • Computer & Information Sciences A PLOS Collection Proceedings of the Third International Barcode of Life Conference Mexico City
    Published May 24, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    "DNA barcoding" was proposed formally in 2003 as a technique for species diagnosis and identification using short standardized gene regions. Early conferences focused on the degree to which…

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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Oil Spills
    Published April 2, 2018 Curated Collections

    Oil Spills cause catastrophic and persistent damage on enormous scales, and have dramatic consequences for both humans and the environment. Research into the consequences of oil spills is multifaceted…

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